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Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By : Matt Lambert
Book Image

Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By: Matt Lambert

Overview of this book

Bootstrap, the most popular front-end framework built to design elegant, powerful, and responsive interfaces for professional-level web pages has undergone a major overhaul. Bootstrap 4 introduces a wide range of new features that make front-end web design even simpler and exciting. In this gentle and comprehensive book, we'll teach you everything that you need to know to start building websites with Bootstrap 4 in a practical way. You'll learn about build tools such as Node, Grunt, and many others. You'll also discover the principles of mobile-first design in order to ensure your pages can fit any screen size and meet the responsive requirements. Learn to play with Bootstrap's grid system and base CSS to ensure your designs are robust and that your development process is speedy and efficient. Then, you'll find out how you can extend your current build with some cool JavaScript Plugins, and throw in some Sass to spice things up and customize your themes. This book will make sure you're geared up and ready to build amazingly beautiful and responsive websites in a jiffy.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introducing Bootstrap 4

Summary


That brings the second chapter to a close. We've covered how to use a number of Bootstrap build tools. Let's review what we learned:

  • How to install and run Node.js and npm

  • How to install Grunt

  • How to install Ruby

  • How to navigate the Bootstrap source files

  • How to install the Harp static site generator

  • How to set up a basic project with Harp and run it locally

  • Some important notes about how you can use Sass in Bootstrap 4

Now that our environment is set up and ready to go, we'll start coding the blog in the next chapter. To get us started, we'll jump right into learning about how to use a Flexbox layout in Bootstrap.