Hi I'm currently learning silverstripe, I'm finding the lessons/docs for the backend very useful, for frontend development, can someone recommend what is a common setup/package for frontend development. I understand you can use any framework in the frontend, but if there is a set up that is common in the silverstripe community, I'd rather start with that. I have seen some packages like:
http://addons.silverstripe.org/add-ons/jeffwhitfield/silverstripe-bootstrap-theme
http://addons.silverstripe.org/add-ons/silverstripe-themes/module_bootstrap
But I'm not sure if these are a good place to start, as some of these had not had any activity on github for a while, Thanks, -Matt

It's really up to your favourite choice of framework. Personally I've been using foundation (v4 although version 5 is available ) for all my sites (i use it with sass and compass). It speeds up production time a lot and it's very easy to customise to the customers needs (design). 90% of the site's functionality can be achieved with the foundation components and javascript. For custom functionality, there are plenty of jquery plugin's that can be easily integrated into foundation.
If my static prototype is ready and approved by the client. I setup silvertstripe (using composer) and convert the static html into a silverstripe theme (i believe there's a video tutorial on how to do that). It has proven to be a very effective workflow to me.

Here's a link to foundation: http://foundation.zurb.com
If you would like to start with silverstripe + foundation theme boilerplate:...
https://github.com/ryanwachtl/silverstripe-foundation-theme.git
https://github.com/Mouseketeers/silverstripe-foundation.git
priithansen/silverstripe-foundation-boilerplate

But like i said... personally i like to start with a foundation to create a static site prototype and convert it to a theme myself.

Guy

I roll old school and don't use one.
Silverstripe is extremely flexible in your freedom over the output, so really any framework should fit.

Bootstrap and Foundation are popular choices. But anything should work.

I've been happy with this one recently: https://github.com/ryanwachtl/silverstripe-foundation-theme
I requested an upgrade to Foundation several months ago, and Ryan responded quickly & upgraded.