XPages: IBM OneUI vs. Bootstrap

Question

In the near future, I have to update a bigger XPage application (development time more than three years) now running on a Domino Server 8.5.3 FP6 to Domino Server 9. In this application I am using IBM OneUIv2.1 but I am unsure if I should use it further. Unfortunately I have no experience with Bootstrap, however in one of the last Extension Library releases an essential part of the update was for Bootstrap:

This release is the sixteenth IBM Notes Domino 9.0.1 version of the XPages Extension Library (ExtLib) to OpenNTF. This release contains a significant Bootstrap upgrade to 3.3.6.

So for me it seems to be the XPages CSS Framework of the future? Am I right?

Thanks in advance for sharing your experience!

Answer 1

I use oneUI at the day job. There are some very good things about it. However, I'm trying to get my company and all my personal work migrated to Bootstrap. OneUI is not really responsive. Even if that's not a big issue for you the biggest reason to avoid oneUI is the lack of documentation and materials for it. There actually is documentation for oneUI But nothing like Bootstrap - the most popular framework going as far as I know. Heck right here on StackOverFlow over 59,000 questions have been asked on Bootstrap. There's tons of resources like bootsnipp.com. In my opinion it's almost a no brainer that Bootstrap should be used over oneUI if at all possible.