# Boostrap/bulma and React **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/boostrap-bulma-and-react/232232 **Category:** Development **Created:** [July 7, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/boostrap-bulma-and-react/232232 "2022-07-07T18:38:56Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![merefield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/merefield/32/176214_2.png) [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield) #### Post date: [July 24, 2022, 6:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/boostrap-bulma-and-react/232232/2 "2022-07-24T06:50:04Z")
If you create a standalone app and leverage the Discourse API only, you could theoretically build a complete new app in React. That would be a crazy amount of work, but believe there have been [some attempts to do this in at least react native in the past](https://github.com/lexiconhq/lexicon)? The challenge is the massive amounts of ongoing maintenance to keep feature parity. That example hasn’t had an update in a while? See [Lexicon: a customizable native mobile app for your Discourse site - #22 by Kuro22](https://meta.discourse.org/t/lexicon-a-customizable-native-mobile-app-for-your-discourse-site/201085/22) Do not attempt to mix the frameworks. I have tried using a bit of Bootstrap with Discourse but results are very unreliable. You might get some things working. I don’t think mixing React will work at all? My advice: learn Ember and the official plugin eco-system thoroughly instead. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/boostrap-bulma-and-react/232232)._