preboot
A collection of LESS mixins and variables for writing better CSS.
Statistics on preboot
| Number of watchers on Github | 1739 |
| Number of open issues | 7 |
| Average time to close an issue | 8 months |
| Main language | CSS |
| Average time to merge a PR | 24 days |
| Open pull requests | 4+ |
| Closed pull requests | 14+ |
| Last commit | almost 3 years ago |
| Repo Created | about 7 years ago |
| Repo Last Updated | 2 months ago |
| Size | 504 KB |
| Homepage | http://getpreboot... |
| Organization / Author | mdo |
| Latest Release | v2.1.0 |
| Contributors | 8 |
| Page Updated | 2018-03-18 |
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Preboot 2
Preboot is a collection of LESS mixins and variables for quickly writing CSS. As the precursor to Bootstrap, it serves as a lightweight and interface agnostic approach to jumpstarting your next web project. Use it how you see fit.
Getting started
Preboot requires LESS. Head over to their documentation and familiarize yourself with the project. Once you're up and running, including and using Preboot is a breeze.
- Create a new LESS file (e.g., application.less)
- Include Preboot via
@import "preboot.less"; - Start writing your own LESS-flavored CSS
We highly recommend using Preboot in conjunction with Normalize, a powerful tool for more consistent rendering of web components across various browsers and devices.
Bugs and feature requests
Have a bug or a feature request? Please open a new issue. Before opening any issue, please search for existing issues and read the Issue Guidelines, written by Nicolas Gallagher.
Author
Mark Otto
Brief history
Preboot was originally released in March 2011 under the name Bootstrap.less. Sensing the need for a larger and more comprehensive framework, I copped the name and created Bootstrap based on the original variables and mixins work here. To avoid obivous naming issues, I renamed this Preboot and essentially didn't touch the project for two years.
Fast forward two years and I'm backporting many of Bootstrap's variables and mixins back into Preboot as v2.
Disclaimer: Preboot v1 (Bootstrap.less) was released under a Creative Commons license and is still available. Preboot 2 is now under MIT.
Copyright and license
- almost 5 years Missing: column-span
- about 5 years very simple layout creates unnecessary margin
- about 5 years .size() improvement to replace .square()
- v3
- Pass media query breakpoint to column mixins
- simplify media queries for retina-image mixin
- Fixed a template bug and added support for cache busting and font-faces.
- Confirming Heroku Preboot
- How to tell when heroku preboot is live
- Heroku Preboot Rollover Time
- How to use Preboot mixins in a Rails project with Twitter Bootstrap
- Why do the Preboot mixins no longer compile after Less 1.3.1?
v2.1.0 v2.1.0
Quick release to capture the commits added after the v2 release.
v2 Preboot 2
Complete re-engineering of the project. Highlights include:
- A plethora of useful and customizable variables including grayscale and semantic colors like
@black-50and@brand-success, scaffolding settings like@body-backgroundand@link-color, and typographic shortcuts for font stacks, sizes, headings, and more. - A powerful, semantic, and mobile-first grid system to create your own layouts with ease with just three mixins:
.make-row(),.make-column(), and.make-column-offset(). - Several vendor-prefix mixins to streamline writing of common CSS3 functions like transitions, gradients, and more.
- Several utility mixins for reusing common snippets of code like
.clearfix(),.text-truncate(), and more.
v1.0 Bootstrap.less (Preboot 1)
Tagging the latest code as v1 for archiving purposes ahead of the Preboot 2 launch.