meteorjs has a nice feature you want bootstrap? just do meteor add boostrap inside your folder app and you are good to go.
2014-07-30 18:09 GMT+01:00 Jim S <j...@qlf.com>: > I agree with Anthony. What I've done with my apps is to rip apart the > base layout and provide my own. I typically find something I like in > https://wrapbootstrap.com/ and update layout.html to accommodate. > > -Jim > > > > > On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 11:52:35 AM UTC-5, Anthony wrote: >> >> Thanks for the answer, I was aware of that completely. It is just that >>> Massimo said that it is trivial to replace BS2 with BS3 yet when I try to >>> do it the trivial way and then create a FORM in controller (whether it be >>> simple form, sqlform or sqlform.factory) the form looks completely wrong. >>> The same is with main menu. >>> >> >> By trivial, I don't think Massimo meant to take templates with non-BS3 >> HTML structure and CSS classes and simply load the BS3 CSS file and expect >> to have everything work. >> >> >>> Now I know that in this case I should create form in HTML using >>> appropriate BS3 classes and then use that form in controller but I think >>> you will agree that this takes away the ease of use which is one of the >>> main strengths of web2py. >>> >> >> First, web2py does include a BS3 formstyle, so you can simply do: >> >> SQLFORM(..., formstyle='bootstrap3') >> >> and assuming you have the BS3 CSS loaded, your forms should look fine. >> >> More generally, though, web2py cannot cater to every CSS framework. >> Because Bootstrap is so popular, it is used for the scaffolding app, and >> there are built-in formstyles for BS2 and BS3. If you want to use another >> CSS framework, however, you can simply spend a few minutes writing a custom >> formstyle function, and then use that for all of your forms -- no need to >> write custom HTML in every form view. >> >> >>> I suppose that was why OP named this thread "Bootstrap is killing >>> web2py". I think a lot of web2py users (like myself) are novices in web >>> programming and while it may be trivial for versed web programmer to use >>> BS3 with web2py it is not the case for the beginners. BS3 is more than a >>> year old but I still develop my web apps using BS2 because that is what >>> ships with web2py. I don't want to criticize, web2py is an excellent >>> framework but I think it needs to ship with BS3, otherwise it will lose a >>> lot of novice programmers and I think novice programmers are important >>> because those are the future user base of web2py. >>> >> >> I agree that the scaffolding app should migrate to BS3, but this is a bit >> of an odd complaint. Most server side frameworks come with no scaffolding >> app at all. How could the lack of a BS3 scaffolding app be killing web2py >> if the alternatives don't offer one either? web2py certainly doesn't make >> it any harder to work with BS3 than any other framework, and in fact it is >> generally easier because web2py does include a BS3 formstyle and BS3 >> classes for the grid (most other frameworks don't even include a grid for >> that matter). >> >> Of course it's easier if the scaffolding app already happens to be based >> on the CSS framework you want to use, but it really is not that difficult >> to take any front-end template you find and convert it to a web2py layout >> template, as described here >> <http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/05/the-views#Page-layout>. >> Just start with the HTML template and insert some of the web2py template >> code you see in the welcome layout.html, tweaked as needed. You might also >> keep some or all of web2py.css. >> >> In any case, Massimo has distributed a BS3 version of the welcome app, >> though if you're not planning to make any layout/styling modifications >> anyway, it really won't be any different from using the BS2 version. >> >> Anthony >> > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
