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Bootstrap, Datatables, JavaScript, and JQuery

Grey BrinsonMarch 18, 2022

In my previous iteration as a web developer, "back in the day", things looked quite a bit different than they do now. Mobile phone wise, about the best thing going was a Blackberry, so mobile browser support wasn't given any thought.Its a different world today. I'm setting up an app for my homeowners association and one of the board members remarked that it looked like crap. She doesn't have a computer and her only viewing of the site was on her phone. I'm sure a lot of homeowners will be in the same boat when this goes live. Without acceptable mobile support the "buy-in" rate isn't going to be very good.I had had a conversation with a colleague who is a web developer and he mentioned Bootstrap. As if I was someone waking up from a fifteen year coma, I had never used it before, but I was quickly able to get the basics from a W3schools tutorial and was able to retrofit my blog and HOA sites. These now scale quite nicely to a mobile display. Its not perfect, but its pretty darn good and I have a lot of tutorial left, so I'll likely pick many useful tricks.I also went back and incorporated Datatables and tooltips in my HOA app and they play well with Bootstrap also. I'm using Bootstrap 4 which utilizes jQuery. I see Bootstrap 5 is using plain vanilla Javascript. Things have a way of coming around full circle.