Angular + Spring Boot = 💚! Learn how to add Bootstrap to the mix and configure searching, sorting, and pagination with NG Bootstrap and Spring Data JPA.

I’ve been a longtime fan of CSS frameworks since 2005. I led an open-source project called AppFuse at the time and wanted a way to provide themes for our users. We used Mike Stenhouse’s CSS Framework and held a design content to gather some themes we liked for our users. A couple of other CSS frameworks came along in the next few years, namely Blueprint in 2007 and Compass in 2008.

However, no CSS frameworks took the world by storm like Bootstrap. Back then, it was called Twitter Bootstrap. Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton invented it in mid-2010 while they worked at Twitter. As they wrote in “Building Twitter Bootstrap” in Issue 324 of A List Apart:

Our goal is to provide a refined, well-documented, and extensive library of flexible design components built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for others to build and innovate on.

They released Bootstrap on August 19, 2011, and it quickly became the most popular project on GitHub. Developers like myself all over the world started using it.

Another web framework took the world by storm the following year: AngularJS. AngularJS (v0.9) first appeared on GitHub in October 2010. The creators released version 1.0 on June 14, 2012.

Together, these frameworks have had quite a run. It’s hard to believe that they’ve lasted so long, especially considering both projects have had major rewrites!

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