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Tired of Bootstrap? Try Metrojs.

manish srivastava on June 03, 2020

I personally like metrojs. Wonderfully crafted in Ukraine. So what is it? Are you tired of Bootstrap? Get started with Metro 4, the popular frame...
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leob • Edited

Hm okay, your website won't look identical to hundreds or thousands of other Bootstrap sites (well it's not that hard to customize in order to make it look different), but it will look exactly like any Microsoft Metro UI site or app? Back to square one.

It may be a great choice, I just wondered in which cases you'd want to use this library instead of the official Microsoft toolkit, I mean this:

microsoft.com/design/fluent/#/web

Just wondering what the difference is.

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Serhii Pimenov

Firstly - it’s not plagiarism! all code is written by me from scratch using the Microsoft dev guide. Secondly, all the code is available as open source on github, so it won’t go anywhere. Thirdly, 6.5k stars say that someone needs this and I am grateful to those who use my Metro 4 library. And in the fourth, I myself and the company in which I work use this library for projects, therefore it is constantly developing and will develop!

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manish srivastava • Edited

Hey Sergey , How are you!
Metrojs is wonderful and my team also use it. On 24 December 2019, I had introduced metrojs to devto community in one of my article. The metrojs was viewed by 21,828 developers and 176 stars to the article.
I am one of your followers at Github . People who want to follow Sergey can visit github.com/olton . Also, link to his website: pimenov.com.ua/

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Serhii Pimenov

Also, facebook.com/metrouicss on Facebook

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leob

But I didn't mention plagiarism, it didn't cross my mind ... 6.5K stars that's fantastic and it shows that people like and use it, power to you. Bootstrap is also great, and Material Design, and others. There's plenty of room for alternatives so more choice, power to the people.

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manish srivastava

Yes leob, Metrojs is a fantastic project. Give it a try :)

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Matheus de Campos

Guys, I dont know about you, but for me, almost I prefer write my css for my own!
I know its boring or slowly for companies or what ever, but write by my self makes the look better. Just my sharing my opinion.

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Madza

Great to see an alternative, tho I believe atomic approaches and low-level utilities like Tailwind will get the most traction in future ;)

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Dan Jones

Ewwww.

If I visited a website, and it looked like a Windows Metro desktop, I'd hit that back button so quick.

And it's not super functional either. I tried the "Desktop" demo, and when I tried to drag a "window", it wouldn't stop dragging.

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Serhii Pimenov

if your need to create your own set of Metro 4 components in minutes - use special builder.
Metro 4 Builder - builder.metroui.org.ua

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Serhii Pimenov

The short history of the Metro UI CSS
m.habr.com/ru/post/431152/ (russian language)

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manish srivastava

Nice Sergey !
English Translation is here:

translate.googleusercontent.com/tr...