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Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II

By : Matt Lambert
Book Image

Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II

By: Matt Lambert

Overview of this book

Bootstrap is the most popular open source project on GitHub today. With a little bit of know-how, this massively popular CSS framework can leveraged for any type of complex web application or website. Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II will teach you to build these types of projects in an easy-to-understand fashion. The key to any complex Bootstrap project is a strong development foundation for your project. The book will first teach you how to build a Bootstrap development environment using Harp.js, Node, and Less. In the next chapters, we’ll build on this foundation by creating restaurant and mobile-first aggregator projects. Once you’re warmed up, we’ll move on to more complex projects such as a wiki, a new magazine, a dashboard, and finally a social networking website. Whether you are brand new to Bootstrap or a seasoned expert, this book will provide you with the skills you need to successfully create a number of popular web applications and websites.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Bootstrap Site Blueprints Volume II
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up the template


Before we get too far, let's create a new project called Chapter 3 by copying over our boilerplate code we created in the first chapter. Let's update some of the basic template files for this new project.

Adding a new web font

I mentioned that we are going to use some Google material design principals and styles in this project. The first thing I'd like you to do is to use the material design font called Roboto. It's available for free from the Google web fonts website or you can simply include the following line of code in the _layout.ejs file:

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,300,700,900' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

You'll notice I'm using the light, regular, bold, and super bold weights of the web font.

Adding the JavaScript to _layout.ejs

For this project, I've written a little custom jQuery that we'll use in our search bar. I'll cover that a little later but for now, just insert the following code at the bottom of _layout.ejs...