Bootstrap VS CodeIgniter Wizard

• Responsive Design
  Bootstrap's grid system ensures that webpages are responsive and adapt to different screen sizes seamlessly.
• Pre-designed Components
  Bootstrap comes with a variety of pre-designed components like buttons, forms, modals, and navigation bars that streamline the development process.
• Cross-browser Compatibility
  Bootstrap ensures that your website will function correctly across different browsers, reducing the time spent on debugging issues related to browser inconsistencies.
• Extensive Documentation
  The documentation is comprehensive and well-organized, making it easier for developers to understand and implement Bootstrap features quickly.
• Community Support
  With a large and active community, finding help and resources related to Bootstrap development is relatively easy.
• Customizable
  Bootstrap allows you to customize the default styles and components using Sass variables, making it adaptable to any project needs.
• CDN Support
  Bootstrap can be included via Content Delivery Networks (CDN), which can help to speed up the initial load time of your web pages.

Possible disadvantages

• Uniform Look
  Websites built with Bootstrap often look similar because many developers use the default styles and components without customization.
• Overhead
  Including the entire Bootstrap library can add unnecessary weight to your project if you only use a small fraction of its features.
• Learning Curve
  For beginners, the extensive set of features and classes can be overwhelming and take some time to learn.
• Dependency on jQuery
  Older versions of Bootstrap heavily rely on jQuery, which can be a disadvantage for projects that aim to minimize dependencies.
• Specific Structure
  Bootstrap works best when you adhere to its predefined structure and classes, which can limit flexibility for more complex or unique designs.
• Customization Challenges
  Deep customization can be difficult and time-consuming, especially if you need to override many default styles and behaviors.
• Performance Issues
  Using a large number of Bootstrap components can lead to performance issues, particularly on lower-end devices.

• Reverse-engineer MySQL / MariaDB to MVC classes
• Authentication / Authorization
• Create forms and datatables views
• Automatic code generation for server-side AJAX processing for select2 dropdowns
• Automatic code generation for server-side AJAX processing for dataTables with lazy-loading and pagination with caching
• Automatic detection of changes in database structure after the code is already generated
• Auto-detection of datatabase table prefixes and omitting prefixes in generated class code
• Bootsrap 5 support
• Auto-detection of many-to-one foreign key relationships
• Automatic creation of dropdown fields for related tables instead of text-only ID fields
• Pulled data from referenced tables can be presented as radio button sets or select2 menus
• RESTful Controller Generation
• Option to choose between layout based views and simple header and footer includes
• Generation of Re-usable clean code in other projects
• File Uploads on Forms
• Automatic image resizing after upload

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