Do you use a Front-End framework?

I don't use a particular framework like Bootstrap or Foundation but have my own project folder customized to suit my own needs and work style. Everytime i start a new project i just make a copy of that folder and start working from there (I have it set up so that I can invoke a create project command from Sublime and it makes a copy where I want).

I prefer doing it this way because I can have everything tailored to my workflow, as opposed to having to learn and adapt to a particular framework.

 

I don't usually start off with a framework because then I'm dependent on someone else for it. And if I have a problem, I can't fix it, I have to wait for someone else to.

Yes yes, I know if I find a bug in bootstrap, I can fix it myself or report it, but if I have to learn the inner-workings of a framework, it's not really a framework I want to use, is it?

Having said that, my boss asked me to re-write the front end of an enterprise class application from Flex to HTML5 (in 2 months) and I'm using bootstrap and it's going very fast.

 

18 months ago, I tried using Bootstrap for a project, just to see how good it was.

I now use it in everything. Literally every web site I'm responsible for uses Bootstrap and FontAwesome.

I'm still on Boostrap 2 just now. Moving to Bootstrap 3 and FontAwesome 4 requires some manual changes to your HTML, especially with the changes to its grid structure. I'm putting off the horrible task of replacing loads of .span6 with .col-md-6. Maybe this summer.

 

Foundation 5 with SASS & Compass. Always, for every project. It's just spectacular.

There are JS polyfills for getting it to work reasonably in IE8. Some might consider this bad practice, I consider it bad practice to be using IE8 in 2014.

The benefit of using the SASS version is that I can strip out all the styling or any elements that aren't required, or if I wanted, even just down to the grid css itself.

I'd argue that there is little reason to build your own grid system these days. Unless you have a large amount of time available or the project calls for something truly mind-bending.

 

Not unless the client specifically asks for it.

 

It's usually dictated by the project I'm working on.

I built my own SASS-based setup for a recent project that was built in the Sitecore CMS. When I work in Adobe CQ/Experience Manager, I usually pull in Bootstrap or Foundation, and on a series of flat marketing pages I'm building, I'm using Foundation.

It's good to know how to build a solid fluid grid system yourself, but having an off-the-shelf solution is sometimes good for speed.

 

I'm about it. We should use front end framework on the recommendation of client otherwise not.