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Bootstrap 4 By Example

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Bootstrap 4 By Example

Overview of this book

Bootstrap is a free, open source collection of tools that helps developers create websites or web applications. It provides a faster, easier, and less repetitive solution to designing and building applications. Before Bootstrap’s release, it was necessary to import a variety of libraries into your project that offered different components and features for web interface development. Plus with the increased popularity of smartphones there were lack of libraries that could handle the responsiveness of a web page. Bootstrap‘s existence let it quickly become famous as a front-end framework that offered a wide set of tools from page grid up to components that render a web page in the best possible way for any device. This book will be a tutorial covering various examples as well as step-by-step methodology to create interesting web applications using Bootstrap and to understand the front-end framework to its core. We begin with an introduction to the Bootstrap framework and setting up an environment to build a simple web page. We then cover the grid system, basic Bootstrap components, HTML elements, and customization components for responsive and mobile first development. This is presented by creating a beautiful Landing page sample. You will also learn how to create a web application like Twitter by using the full set of components offered in the framework. Finally, you will learn to create a dashboard web app, using Bootstrap to its finest potential including component customizations, event handling, and external library integration. All these examples are explained step-by-step and in depth, while covering the versions 3 and the most recent version 4 of Bootstrap. So, you will be in the state of the art for front-end development. By the end of this book, you will be familiar with the development of a plugin for the framework and Bootstrap’s world which is popular for fast paced front-end web development, used in countless projects all over the world, and now yours.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Bootstrap 4 By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In my opinion, this last chapter was awesome! We saw more about Bootstrap customization in terms of both components style and plugin interaction. Bootstrap is a great framework, but what makes it great is the extensibility potential that it has. It matches the perfect world where premade components and customization live in symbiosis.

To finish the book with a flourish, we developed a new Bootstrap plugin, the wrapper for Bootstrap Carousel. The plugin contemplates almost every pattern for the Bootstrap plugin, and it has been very helpful in creating a simple carousel with minimal verbosity.

The plugin is available on GitHub at github.com/silviomoreto/bootstrap-carousel. Take a look at it and create a pull-request! There are a bunch of improvements and new features that could be added to the plugin—perhaps a method to remove slides?

Also, the goal of creating a plugin is to make you able to create a new one in the future or understand a Bootstrap plugin if you need to adjust some part...