Chapter 6Responsive Boilerplate
Boilerplate is readily reusable code—a template, if you like—that you can use as a basis for your projects. Extracted from a website, the boilerplate code is what you use over and over again without changes to start off a project or a file.
Often, you’ll know you’re using boilerplate because it forms your first task when you start a project (usually copying and pasting from a “skeleton” into your project). A good boilerplate takes advantage of the wealth of research done by the Web community, providing optimized, best-practice baseline code. It enables you to hit the ground running, reducing your development time as you start to customize.
Important: What’s the catch?
While boilerplates can reduce development time, ...
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