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Go Programming Blueprints

By : Mat Ryer
Book Image

Go Programming Blueprints

By: Mat Ryer

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Go Programming Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making a pretty social sign-in page


So far we haven't paid much attention to making our application look nice, after all this book is about Go and not user-interface development. However, there is no excuse for building ugly apps, and so we will build a social sign-in page that is as pretty as it is functional.

Bootstrap is a frontend framework used to develop responsive projects on the Web. It provides CSS and JavaScript code that solve many user-interface problems in a consistent and good-looking way. While sites built using Bootstrap all tend to look the same (although there are plenty of ways in which the UI can be customized), it is a great choice for early versions of apps, or for developers who don't have access to designers.

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If you build your application using the semantic standards set forth by Bootstrap, it becomes easy for you to make a Bootstrap theme for your site or application and you know it will slot right into your code.

We will use the version of Bootstrap hosted on a...