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Bootstrap, Bulma, and MDL

Explore the key features and benefits of popular CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap, Bulma, and Material Design Lite. Understand their unique components, utilities, and how they aid in building responsive and styled web layouts without heavy JavaScript dependencies.

There are many CSS frameworks out there. This lesson will cover a few popular CSS frameworks—Bootstrap, Bulma, and MDL.

Bootstrap front-end framework

The official home of the Bootstrap framework is getbootstrap.com.

Bootstrap is a mature front-end framework, currently at version 5.2. It was initially an internal project at Twitter, where it was known as Twitter Blueprint.

It was renamed to Bootstrap and open-sourced on August 11, 2011. Bootstrap is a full-fletched CSS framework. It comes with its own CSS reset—the CSS reboot stylesheet. It has lots of utility classes, namely:

  • Margin and padding classes (for example, mb-0 sets the margin-bottom to 0, pt-5 makes large padding at the top of an element) ...