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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

Coding the dashboard


The main body of the dashboard is going to hold the main portion of this project. We'll start by setting up the two-column layout, followed by inserting the sidebar with pill-based navigation. Next, we'll update the typography styles and insert pie charts. Finally, we'll customize the Bootstrap panel and table components and add a line chart for good measure.

Setting up the layout

The dashboard is going to use a two-column layout. The left column will be our sidebar navigation, and it will use the Bootstrap pill component. The right-side will hold our page content with charts, panels, and tables. If you haven't already done so, create a file named index.ejs in the root of your project and enter the layout code:

<div class="container">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-lg-3">
      <!-- sidebar //-->
    </div>
    <div class="col-lg-9">
      <!-- content //-->
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

This layout code is...