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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

Chapter 4. Working with Layouts

The core of any Bootstrap website is the layout or grid component. Without a grid, a website is pretty much useless. One of the biggest layout challenges we face as web developers nowadays is dealing with a large array of screen resolutions, from desktop to tablets, mobile phones, and even Apple watches. It is not easy to lay out a website and we rely on responsive web design and media queries to take a mobile-first approach. Perhaps the best feature of the Bootstrap layout grid is that it's mobile-first and built using media queries. This takes the hardest part out of constructing a grid and lets us concentrate on the actual design of our projects. Before we start to layout the next part of our blog project, let's review the lay out grid basics in Bootstrap 4.

In this chapter, we are going to discuss the following listed topics briefly:

  • Working with containers

  • Adding columns to your layout

  • Creating a simple three-column layout

  • Coding the blog home page

  • Using responsive...