This is such a great idea! Both for committed learners and for those who just need a cheat sheet for conversations with more experienced technicians. Having a category for enterprise tools and DevOps tools would also be really handy (ie. Azure, ActiveDirectory, Elastic Beanstalk, Heroku, etc.)
Thank you! I'm glad you see the benefit of a resource like this. And users can create the tools as well as the categories so feel free to add a DevOps category, as I'm not as well-versed on tools in that space.
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.
I know that the article itself doesn't take sides as to which one is "better", but I'm curious to know which one is more popular. Does anybody here have a favorite? (and why?)
From looking at the website, I don't see what the value proposition is at first glance. Why would this help me as a rails engineer more than buying the rights to use an html theme from Envato? That seems to be cheaper and hold a much less steep learning curve. I'm not trying to be a pain, but I am honestly missing something.
