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mdo/preboot
A collection of LESS mixins and variables for writing better CSS.
Preboot is a LESS mixin library from Bootstrap's creator — essentially the extracted variables and mixins that became Bootstrap, kept as a standalone lightweight layer. It's for developers who want CSS utility primitives without adopting a full framework.
Pedigree is real: this is the direct ancestor of Bootstrap's variable/mixin system, so the patterns are proven at scale. Lightweight by design — no opinion on grid or components, just raw building blocks. MIT license, no strings attached.
Dead since January 2016 — the last commit is over nine years ago, and LESS itself has lost the ecosystem battle to Sass and then PostCSS/CSS custom properties. Everything this did is now either native CSS or covered better by modern tooling. The website CNAME is in the repo but getpreboot.com is gone. Adopting this today means maintaining a dependency in a language most teams are actively migrating away from.