BootstrapCDN


BootstrapCDN is a public content delivery network. It enables users to load CSS, JavaScript and images remotely from its servers. Used by more than 7.9 million websites worldwide, BootstrapCDN serves more than 70 billion requests a month. Bootstrap uses StackPath's global content delivery network, which makes websites using its service resilient to unexpected surges in web traffic.

History

Twitter Bootstrap

was founded by two former Twitter software engineers, Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton, as a front end for web development, with templates for forms, buttons, and other user interface items. Twitter Bootstrap was open sourced in August 2011. NetDNA launched BootstrapCDN, the free content delivery network aspect of Bootstrap, with a beta launch on June 7, 2012 and a stable launch on July 5, 2012. Stanford University, Angry Birds and Gizmodo utilize BootstrapCDN.

Font Awesome

, a font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap, was incorporated into BootstrapCDN on August 21, 2012. The font offers scalable vector icons that are CSS-friendly for customization.
As of July 5, 2013 — a year after it launched — BootstrapCDN transferred 40.73 terabytes and served 3.2 billion requests, with 383 changes to its Github repository. Font Awesome was its most popular requested file with 338,329,273 hits.

Usage

Developers can access BootstrapCDN's CSS and Javascript content through the following links:


Notice that certain Bootstrap JavaScript functionalities has dependency on jQuery and Popper.js as well.