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Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By : Lambert
Book Image

Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By: 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

Setting up a Flexbox project


A Flexbox project is structured exactly like a regular one. You just have to be sure to replace the bootstrap.min.css file in the /css directory with the new Flexbox version. Copy the project we made in the last chapter and paste it wherever you want on your computer. Rename the project to something like Flexbox project. Now open up that project and navigate to the /css directory. In a new window, open up the Flexbox sources files directory and navigate to the /dist/css/ directory. Copy the bootstrap.min.css file from /dist/css into the /css directory in your new Flexbox project. You'll be prompted to overwrite the file and you should choose Yes. That's it, your new Flexbox project is ready to roll.

It would be a good idea to keep the Flexbox source files somewhere on your computer. In future projects, you can simply copy the compiled Flexbox version of the Bootstrap CSS over, saving you the trouble of having to recompile the source files each time you want a...