Game-development Log (9. "Bootstraping")

1. Introduction + WebAPI for map tiles
2. Visual Studio Online
3. Loading data to Vector Tiles
4. Rendering image tiles
5. CDN Caching for map tiles
6. Adding Units and Basic Interaction
7. Attack and Explosions
8. Performance Checkpoint
9. Bootstraping
10. Real-time with SignalR
11. Persistence and Authentication
12. Scaling up the loader process
13. Polishing the experience

Work-in-progress: https://site-win.azurewebsites.net

This will be a short one. I'm basically picking up my map page and adding a bootstrap template around it.

I'm not tweaking it too much, just adding a couple of navigation buttons, some modals and some cosmetic details (like a subtle transparency on the navigation bar).

Without Bootstrap:

With Bootstrap:

Some buttons on the navbar already open some modals but it's mostly a placeholder for the functionality, like the Sign in one.

Also, Boostrap provides, out-of-the-box, responsive design. Thus the mobile-like display looks like:

So, nothing too fancy but I really love the "cleaness" that Bootstrap provides. I still need to tweak the UI a little bit but I'm not expecting it to change that much.