Railsstrap
Make your Ruby project awesome with railsstrap. Bootstrap 4 + Helpers, additional components, and more.
Overview
Railsstrap elevates the integration of Bootstrap 4 and FontAwesome 5 into Rails applications, transforming how developers create user interfaces. Built for Rails versions 3.1 and up, this powerful gem streamlines the coding process by offering a range of custom UI components, animations, and integrated templating within ActionView. With precompiled CSS and JS assets, Railsstrap not only enhances the aesthetic of web applications but also optimizes performance by allowing the use of Webpacker or the asset pipeline for managing assets.
As web development continues to evolve, the need for modern, responsive designs has never been greater. Railsstrap answers this call with a robust set of features designed to provide a seamless user experience, while maintaining the flexibility that developers require. Whether you're looking to integrate animations or leverage the extensive toolbox of Bootstrap components, Railsstrap makes it simple and efficient.
Features
- Custom UI Components: Offers a variety of pre-designed components such as modals, alerts, and badges, making it easy to create visually appealing interfaces.
- CSS Animations: With more than 75 CSS animations available, adding dynamic effects to your application is straightforward and can enhance user engagement.
- Integrated ActionView Templating: Simplifies the process of including Bootstrap's components directly within Rails views, adhering to standard Rails conventions.
- Precompiled Assets: Delivers optimized, ready-to-use CSS and JS files that can easily be integrated into your application's asset pipeline or Webpacker.
- Helper Methods: Includes multiple helper methods for common UI elements (like buttons and forms) that ensure a consistent Bootstrap experience throughout your app.
- FontAwesome Integration: Leverages the latest FontAwesome icons with a default helper while allowing customization to meet specific design needs.
- CDN Support: By default, Railsstrap pulls in dependencies through a CDN, enhancing load times and reducing server load.
- Animation Control: Each animated CSS class can be easily applied and customized, allowing developers to create unique animation sequences within their applications.
- Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails, often referred to as Rails, is an open-source web application framework written in Ruby. Known for its convention over configuration and don't repeat yourself (DRY) principles, Rails simplifies and accelerates the development of database-backed web applications.
- Bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular CSS Framework for developing responsive and mobile-first websites.
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Webpack
Webpack is a popular open-source module bundler for JavaScript applications that bundles and optimizes the code and its dependencies for production-ready deployment. It can also be used to transform other types of assets such as CSS, images, and fonts.
