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Mastering Bootstrap 4

Mastering Bootstrap 4

By : Benjamin Jakobus, Jason Marah
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Mastering Bootstrap 4

Mastering Bootstrap 4

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By: Benjamin Jakobus, Jason Marah

Overview of this book

Bootstrap 4 is a free CSS and JavaScript framework that allows developers to rapidly build responsive web-interfaces. Right from the first chapter, dive into building a customized Bootstrap website from scratch. Get to grips with Bootstrap’s key features and quickly discover the various ways in which Bootstrap can help you develop web-interfaces. Then take walk through the fundamental features, such as its grid system, helper classes, and responsive utilities. When you have mastered these, you will discover how to structure page layouts, use forms, style different types of content and utilize Bootstrap’s various navigation components. Among other things, you will also tour the anatomy of a Bootstrap plugin, creating your own custom components and extending Bootstrap using jQuery. Finally, you will discover how to optimize your website and integrate it with third-party frameworks. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough knowledge of the framework’s ins and outs, and be able to build highly customizable and optimized web interfaces.
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Introducing Grunt


The minifier that we used in the previous section greatly reduced the size of our style sheet and JavaScript files, and also helped reduce the overall number of requests required to render MyPhoto . However, using it has one downside—every time that you make a change to either your CSS or JavaScript code during development, you are required to rerun the tool. This greatly slows down development and can even cause frustration and hair tearing. (Just imagine forgetting to run the minifier, thinking that you ran it, and not seeing your changes appear. You are likely to blame your code as opposed to your forgetfulness.) Therefore, would it not be nice if we could minify and concatenate our files automatically every time that we make a change to our source code?

Meet Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner (http://gruntjs.com/). As implied by its name, Grunt is a tool that allows us to automatically run any set of tasks. Grunt can even wait while you code, and pickup changes made...

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