“HTML vs Bootstrap: The Battle of Front-End Development”
HTML:
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It is a standard markup language for creating web pages. It describes the structure of web pages. HTML is a fundamental building block of a website. It has different attributes and elements with different properties. HTML consists of a series of elements, which you use to enclose, or wrap, different parts of the content to make it appear a certain way, and act a certain way. The enclosing tags can make a word or image hyperlink to somewhere else, can italicize words, can make—the font bigger or smaller, and so on. HTML is easy to learn and also easy to use. For example — content could be structured within paragraphs, a list of bulleted points, or using images and data tables.
Bootstrap:
Twitter developed Bootstrap in 2011 and got released it on GitHub in the same year. Bootstrap is free open-source. Bootstrap is the most popular framework of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (JS) for its compatibility with all modern browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Edge, etc. It is a faster and easier way of web development. Bootstrap creates platform-independent web pages.
It solves many problems which we had once, one of which is the cross-browser compatibility issue. Front-end-framework webpages, and mobile-friendly websites. Bootstrap has pre-defined classes that make a developer’s job easy. However, a basic understanding of HTML & CSS is required to work with Bootstrap. It contains various HTML & CSS-based design templates, especially for typography, buttons, tables, forms, models, navigation, and image carousels as well as optional JavaScript plugins.
Characteristics of Bootstrap:
Bootstrap is open source
Bootstrap was initially created as an internal tool used by Twitter but quickly became open source (free and publicly available to use). Anyone can get Bootstrap for personal or commercial use.
Bootstrap is a framework
Part of designing a website is designing how different frames and menus are positioned on the page and in relation to each other. Take a look at the menu and panel layouts on this webpage. All of this is programmed using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
As a framework, Bootstrap is a collection of pre-written code chunks in CSS, HTML, and JavaScript that allows developers to create websites more quickly than if they had to create every bit of code from scratch. Bootstrap saves developers time so that they can focus on other things rather than coding CSS.
Bootstrap helps you create responsive websites
Responsive websites are pages that easily adapt to different devices, platforms, and screen sizes. Whether you’re visiting a website on Chrome from your Android phone or your 27-inch iMac at home, you should see a version of the page with dimensions, buttons, and fonts that don’t look too big or too small.
