Can I use bootstrap 3 together with jQuery Mobile?

Question

I have read many \"bootstrap vs. jQuery mobile\" articles. It is quite clear that they both have different aims. So what about combining them?

Besides other, I like

Answer 1

Personally I think jQuery Mobile has more features than you really need, also it locks you into a way of building which isn't flexible. It starts to get buggy and messy when you have many panels with different animations and usually gets you 80% of the way very quickly, but then takes a long time to do custom things.

I would use twitter bootstrap and then add plugins to support features you need.

Bootstrap has lots of unofficial plugins you can add to imitate the functionality of jQuery Mobile: http://bootsnipp.com/resources

there is a guide here to use the swipe events from jQuery Mobile only: http://lazcreative.com/blog/adding-swipe-support-to-bootstrap-carousel-3-0/

Or you can use your own plugin to manually add the swipe events: http://stephband.info/jquery.event.swipe/

If you want an expandable sidebar menu you can easily add it yourself:

-webkit-transition: width 0.35s ease;
-moz-transition: width 0.35s ease;
-o-transition: width 0.35s ease;
transition: width 0.35s ease;

http://jsfiddle.net/Osis/Mns8q/ http://codepen.io/krichnafsky/pen/cuhkL http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/01/15/off-canvas-navigation-for-responsive-website/