Summary

We started this chapter admitting that our ultra-minimalistic UI/UX approach wouldn't work for a potentially shippable product that our Native Web Application should eventually become. Having acknowledged that fact, we added a LESS-based custom stylesheet file to our project. Before doing that, for the benefit of those not familiar with the style sheet pre-processor approach, we spent some time enumerating some of the LESS main advantages.

Right after adding the style.less file to our project, we had to choose between adopting one of the popular CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap, YAML, or Foundation, or stick to a full do-it-yourself approach. We briefly enumerated some pros and cons of each alternative, then we opted for Bootstrap 3, mostly ...

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