Show HN: I made 10 open-source Bootstrap 4 themes

Show HN: I made 10 open-source Bootstrap 4 themes(hackerthemes.com)

30 points by arechsteiner 8 years ago | 12 comments

dx034 8 years ago |

I like the themes but they all aim at websites that don't really present any content. Those huge headers look nice but are not really suitable if you want to present users with information that doesn't require them to scroll down the page. The lack of any sidebars also reduces the amount of content you can show on desktop.

It appears to be a common trend though, I guess because most content is now on apps and those websites only advertise apps or services.

arechsteiner 8 years ago | |

These are simply customized versions of Bootstrap 4.1. They're meant to spice up your Bootstrap project by modifying the colors and looks of the existing components and typography.

The layout is really up to you.

Blackstone4 8 years ago |

Is this all there is in terms of code to create the Bubblegum theme?

https://github.com/HackerThemes/theme-machine/blob/master/th...

arechsteiner 8 years ago | |

There's also this

https://github.com/HackerThemes/theme-machine/blob/master/sc...

which is imported in the file that you linked. That's all in terms of SCSS. Then the gulp task runs the SCSS build and the autoprefixer.

Blackstone4 8 years ago | | |

Awesome. Thanks. Good work.

It's surprising always how little you need to tweak Bootstrap to make it look completely different.

davewasthere 8 years ago |

I'm really impressed. It's good work. Bootstrap buffet is excellent too!

arechsteiner 8 years ago | |

Thank you, that's great to hear. You might like the cheat sheet then. It's similar to the buffet, just a different approach: https://hackerthemes.com/bootstrap-cheatsheet/

ApolloRising 8 years ago |

I liked the pleasant theme quite a bit.

50shade 8 years ago |

They seem kinda cookie cutter...

stephenr 8 years ago | |

They're bootstrap themes - basically customisations to the colour, spacing, font, borders etc.

I dont use bootstrap themes like this myself directly but they can have a very useful purpose (which I intend to take advantage of)

Suppose you release an application, it doesn't matter if it's OSS, Commercial, or even hosted SaaS. It's a business web-app, so you use Bootstrap as your "UI Kit". Ok, Bootstrap has some basic default styles, and you maybe have a designer create a custom theme for your app.

But the user/customer wants to customise the appearance, perhaps it's exposed to their clients somehow, perhaps it's visible on a physical terminal in a shop.

Either way - this is where bootstrap themes (and I mean themes, like these - not so much those "Bootstrap Dashboard" which use a whole whack of extra JS libraries, markup and css) like the linked ones, or those found on https://bootswatch.com can be very effective.

If you build several applications, the effect is magnified, as the customer/user can now use multiple apps with the same custom theme, with almost no work at all from you.

arechsteiner 8 years ago | |

Sorry to hear that. I've tried to keep some consistency with the layout because the fonts and colors are already all over the place.

johnnyodonnell 8 years ago |

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!