Thursday, January 3, 2013

To Bootstrap or not to Bootstrap

Last year, I developed a web app that used Google's appengine. For the front-end, I used Twitter Bootstrap 2.0, with a standard SQL db (via Google's CloudSQL) and some basic jsp and js to support it. Yes, I know that no one actually uses jsp anymore, but it turned out to be pretty efficient since I was using the Java SDK instead of the python one.

If you are the sort of person who enjoys yarnbombing trees and pinning pics of your creative endeavours on a map to share with all and sundry, it was a huge success. I'm one of those people.

I'm also a big fan of code reuse, so I decided to look into reusing some of the elements - modals for site registration and so on.

Turns out you can use Twitter Bootstrap (this is the second time I've typed that word in this post and for some bizarre reason it looks misspelled to me) along with Drupal.

Optional Mission Objective Acquired.

So here is where we stand:
  Domain name ✓
  ISP (baremetal.com) verfication that Drupal is supported ✓
  mySQL db ✓
  PHP ✓
  Drupal distribution ✓
  Bootstrap for Drupal ✓

Next up, I'll review the process I used to previously get mySQL and PHP to behave on my laptop and make sure that everything is still in working order.


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