Installing Bootstrap with Bower

We want our users’ experience with Shine to be good, but we don’t have hours and hours to spend styling and perfecting it. We also might not even have the expertise to do a good job. The reality of software development, especially for internal tools, is that there’s rarely enough time or people to work on a great design.

Fortunately, there are now many CSS frameworks available that can help us produce a decent design. A framework is a set of reusable classes that we can apply—without writing any actual CSS—to style our markup. For example, a framework might set up a set of font sizes that work well when used together. It may also provide classes we can apply to form fields to make them lay out effectively on ...

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