Migration Guide Please - Foundation 5 - 6

[ghost]

A migration guide is needed sooner rather than later.

[kokujin]

+1

[jivedog70]

+1 (x 1000)

[weiserma]

+1

[gakimball]

Rolling this into #7246. We're still working on it!

[jamJamDev]

Has a 5 to 6 guide been created yet?

[ncoden]

• Migrating from v4 to v5
• Migrating from v5 to v6 (unofficial compilation)
• All Foundation releases

See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/36590054/4317384

[jamJamDev]

@ncoden thanks! these are actually resources I have compiled on my on as well. Do you happen to know if there are plans for an 'official' guide?

[JeremyEnglert]

@ncoden thanks! these are actually resources I have compiled on my on as well. Do you happen to know if there are plans for an 'official' guide?

Highly doubt an "official" guide will happen.

My best advice? Don't migrate an existing project to a new version of Foundation unless you're planning a redevelopment/redesign. There's really not much of a point.

[rgaufman]

Yes, we tried to migrate from 5 to 6 and after a week of effort, we gave up and moved back to Foundation 5 :(

We will eventually migrate to Bootstrap4 as it seems easier than upgrading to Foundation6.

[DanielRuf]

Generally there are always (many) breaking changes between major versions. Same applies to Bootstrap 3 vs Bootstrap 4 which are completely different frameworks. Bootstrap 4 is more like a utility framework like Tachyons and Tailwinds while Bootstrap 3 was more like Foundation.

We've moved client project from 5 to 6 afaik and we did this by refactoring which involves creating a new component with the new markup and functions, adjust the JS and CSS (it's easier if you have unit tests).

https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/utilities/borders/

[DanielRuf]

See https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/migration/

Migrating now to a totally different framework is much more work.