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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 this chapter, we finished our web application example. The main objective here was to learn about the Bootstrap plugins that we had not described before.

First, you learned about data attributes and how to use them with Bootstrap. After that, we saw both the possible ways to call plugins: via pure JavaScript or just through data attributes APIs.

We started and finished plugins with modals. Modals are one of the main plugins in Bootstrap because they are very versatile and customizable. Thus, they are fit for multiple contexts where you need some interaction with the user but do not want to move to another page.

In the middle of the chapter, we talked about two plugins that are closely related. They are the tooltip and the popover. Both came from the same initial plugin but with different contexts. Tooltips are used for auxiliary content, and popovers are something midway between a modal and a tooltip, so they can display more content compared to tooltips, but not too much intrusive...