bulma-templates VS mvp

If you're a beginner who wants to give it a go with bulma, or just an enthusiast who wishes to slap some content into existing template and have a web page, or maybe build some theme upon existing layout, take a look at Bulma Templates repo.

I use a simple serverside framework such as ExpressJS or FlaskJS, which routes URL requests to HTML page responses.

Served by NGINX on a Linux server. I host with DigitalOcean for $6/month

I use a CSS Framework template. I like Bulma for its simplicity: https://bulmatemplates.github.io/bulma-templates/

Summary of things to google:

- simple Serverside framework for

- Digital ocean nginx tutorial

- CSS Framework Template

I just take a Bulma template, and edit the CSS styles within its html.

If i feel ambitious, I install v/ node, then edit the sass (compiles to css)

https://bulmatemplates.github.io/bulma-templates/

Typically:

1. Generate an express app with --view=ejs (ejs is virtually the same as HTML but lets you inject js into your html)

https://expressjs.com/en/starter/generator.html

2. Display & edit a simple html page.

3. ???

4. Profit

- Web Portfolio showing 3 projects. -- for example, check out the template here [1] called "Portfolio" -- take it, repurpose it with your own content. Get it online. Add your web portfolio URL to your resume.

- Github/Gitlab (to show your code)

- LinkedIn presence

Basically: Show you have the skills. And put yourself "out there" i.e. market yourself

[1] https://bulmatemplates.github.io/bulma-templates/

The index.html file in the site folder is the landing page. The file uses the responsive Bulma CSS library that requires no JavaScript. I picked a template and modified it for this landing page.

Buy a bootstrap theme, they're cheap and they offer a lot out of the box. Better solution than bare tailwind, which actually requires you to know how to design. I used tailwind on my personal website, result was good but I had to do a lot more than if I used a bootstrap theme.

You make your app ui work within the boundaries of your bootstrap theme and you're good for 96% of the design stuff.

If you don't want to even learn bootstrap css classes and stuff, consider https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/

It's amazing, you drop it and you have a theme based on the html only. I use this mostly for prototyping though

Like the previous submitter ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30885700 April 2022 ) I found clasless.css while investigating semantic html-oriented css libraries and this one stood out to me as having a good balance. I'm not ideologically opposed to using classes, but using them for every bit of styling seems off and I'd rather see good default styles for regular semantically structured html. For example, classless.css uses the "card" class for cards which don't have a clear analog in among standard html tags: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element

Other libraries:

Water.css: https://watercss.kognise.dev/

MVP.css: https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/

Missing.css: https://missing.style/

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more like this:

  -  https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/ mvp.css

On a side note, you can throw something like water.css , tacit, or MVP.css for quick and easy styling and you just focus on the HTML.

Since this tool was just for testing, I wanted a simple CSS solution so that I didn't have to focus on styling. I went with MVP.css and Tailwind for small tweaks. It worked really well, but in the future, I'd like to take a look at Pico.css, which I just learned about from this Fireship video.

You could pay a front end dev to use a preexisting template.

Or, you could Google “classless CSS”, if you’re OK writing some HTML.

I made a plug and play CSS library here for those that don’t want to write CSS: https://github.com/andybrewer/mvp