Facebook uses Twitter Bootstrap

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/console/

by mvd7793 • 14 years ago

36 22 14 years ago

developers.facebook.com

Funny that not even Facebook devs bothered to change the colours to use the FB brand blue. Twitter Bootstrap slowly becomes synonym to "basic unstyled webpage".

hnriot• 14 years ago

it looks like they have to me? The header bar is using #333333 just like facebook.com does.

If "basic unstyled webpage" is now bootstrap, then the world is a better place.

missechokit• 14 years ago

Seriously. I'm just waiting for that day.

citricsquid• 14 years ago

click "examples", it's #08C.

creativityhurts4• 14 years ago

The top bar and the left side is still from Facebook, Bootstrap is used within an iframe that's actually the whole main column.

vacipr• 14 years ago

This reminded me of https://github.com/ckrack/fbootstrapp. Too bad development stopped.

d0m• 14 years ago

Sigh. So fucking what, that facebook uses bootstrap.

mvd7793• 14 years ago

I just got a good laugh out of it, and thought others might too. It's certainly not meant to be a bash at Facebook.

creativityhurts4• 14 years ago

I think it's a big thing for Bootstrap as a project and for its creators and contributors when their work is used by giants like Facebook & co.

imjared• 14 years ago

It's a Twitter project, it's not like bootstrap isn't being used by "giants" already.

pizza2• 14 years ago

On a more general note, is anyone else tired of seeing "X uses Y" posts? It feels more and more that, in the Valley, namedropping is a way to ensure your own relevance, whether you're a business or a landing page or a person, and I'm getting tired of these appeals to popularity.

drivebyacct22• 14 years ago

I'm pretty much 100% sure Facebook is not name-dropping Twitter.

pizza2• 14 years ago

Yeah, but OP is.

blago• 14 years ago

"X - the Y for something" is even more annoying. Example from first page: "EasyPost - the Stripe for postage"

untog• 14 years ago

While I understand the annoyance, how else could you convey what "the Stripe for postage" says in such a short, succinct way?

electic• 14 years ago

Big deal. Facebook uses a lot of JS and CSS from all over the place. Not sure why this is a big deal.

sjtgraham• 14 years ago

so. what.

arice• 14 years ago

FYI: Facebook has open sourced this tool, you can find it on github. Here's the commit that added Bootstrap: https://github.com/daaku/rell/commit/64bd62d40df54ddc08a9270...

daakus• 14 years ago

I'm the Facebooker maintaining this tool. We use it internally and externally and it represents a "platform application". It runs on a separate domain (www.fbrell.com) and is iframed on the linked page on facebook.com.

It's all open source actually: https://github.com/daaku/rell.

Even better, it's written in Go :)

Facebook uses Twitter Bootstrap

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