Bootstrap is a sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development, created and maintained by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton. This is a port of the framework using Stylus as the CSS preprocessor.

Bootstrap uses Grunt with convenient methods for working with the framework. It's how we compile our code, run tests, and more. To use it, install the required dependencies as directed and then run some Grunt commands.

From the command line:

1. Install grunt-cli globally with npm install -g grunt-cli.
2. Install the necessary local dependencies via npm install
3. Install bower globally with npm install -g bower
4. Install the necessary components via bower install

When completed, you'll be able to run the various Grunt commands provided from the command line.

Unfamiliar with npm? Don't have node installed? That's a-okay. npm stands for node packaged modules and is a way to manage development dependencies through node.js. Download and install node.js before proceeding.

Run grunt to compile the CSS into /dist

This is a convenience method for watching just Stylus files and automatically building them whenever you save.

Keep track of development and community news.

• Follow @twbootstrap on Twitter.
• Read and subscribe to the The Official Bootstrap Blog.
• Have a question that's not a feature request or bug report? Ask on the mailing list.
• Chat with fellow Bootstrappers in IRC. On the irc.freenode.net server, in the ##twitter-bootstrap channel.

For transparency and insight into our release cycle, and for striving to maintain backward compatibility, Bootstrap will be maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines as much as possible.

Releases will be numbered with the following format:

<major>.<minor>.<patch>

And constructed with the following guidelines:

• Breaking backward compatibility bumps the major (and resets the minor and patch)
• New additions without breaking backward compatibility bumps the minor (and resets the patch)
• Bug fixes and misc changes bumps the patch

For more information on SemVer, please visit http://semver.org/.

Mark Otto

• http://twitter.com/mdo
• http://github.com/mdo

Jacob Thornton

• http://twitter.com/fat
• http://github.com/fat

Copyright 2012 Twitter, Inc under the Apache 2.0 license. With changed files from me.