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Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherMultiple Frameworks
What are the thoughts on combining Front-End and Back-End frameworks? For example Bootstrap & Laravel.
Is the end result worth the effort? Is the long-term maintenance a huge headache?
I'm looking for advantages/disadvantages or pluses/minuses that sort of thing.
Just curious.
Thanks in advance. Ken
3 Answers
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 PointsThat's actually a normal thing to be honest with you. The Laravel course on Treehouse uses a framework also. They just use Foundation 5 instead of Bootstrap. The advantage of this is when there's an update classes and ids usually stay the same, so you'd only be swapping out the bootstrap stylesheet and your site would be up to date.
Attila Vago
Courses Plus Student 15,286 PointsYeah, like David said, using frameworks for both back-end and front-end is a standard approach these days. Why reinvent the wheel, right? :) So to answer your question, no drawbacks whatsoever. Feel free to combine as much as you like. But I do recommend Foundation Zurb for front-end. ;)
Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherNow that I think about it, I did indeed load Foundation 5 during the Laravel course, perhaps I didn't fully realize what it was at the time.
Thanks!