What is the correct way to work with Bitrix templates?

Question

1C-Bitrix

When installing Bitrix, the kit comes with an online store template with good functionality. But there is always something to change. And work becomes hell.
Question: how does anyone work with Bitrix? Do you constantly customize your native template or write your own from scratch and then use it in your projects?

Answer 1

Alas, this is how it works with Bitrix. The copy-paste method. Moreover, in this system it is elevated to the absolute! Take a ready-made page template with two or three complex components, copy it, change css, copy the complex components of this page, change their code and css / javascript, then, using the visual inspection method, find the components included in the complex components, copy, change, and so on circle.
Yes, you can take a third-party component, but it turns out that it does not work with your version, you spit, write to the component developer, find out he has a binge, rewrite, yes, by copying.
Hooray! You have your first component! You put it away carefully. In half a year you have 20 components. You put the site, the second, the third for customers, and strongly do not recommend updating the system.
And so on in a circle. On the seventh round, an epiphany occurs, but the next customer insists on Bitrix... Hell - it's here and now :-)

Answer 2

Now I am writing a store at work quite complicated, for the first time I don’t use the standard Bitrix component templates, and everything is not as scary as it seems

Answer 3

And what prevents you from using any other template? Changing the website template is very easy, you probably know how...
Answer: I take a ready-made template (not in Bitrix), more or less suitable, and customize it for the task. From scratch, of course, it is also possible, but is it profitable for you?

Answer 4

У меня обычно порядок такой.
Ставлю Битрикс с тем, что есть.
Натягиваю тот HTML, который нужен. Со всеми шаблонами компонентов, ессено.
Пока моим клиентам достаточно тех компонентов, которые идут в коробке. Так что, необходимости писать логику не было, а с шаблонами компонентов все достаточно просто.
Имхо, некоторая тяжеловесность Битрикса связана как раз с тем, что компонент берет из базы вообще все данные по теме компонента. Это здорово грузит базу, но в шаблоне вы просто выводите нужные значения из массива и все.