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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

Updating your variables


The main difference in variables is the symbol used to denote one. In Less we use an @ symbol for our variables, while in Sass you use the $ symbol. Here are a couple of examples for you:

/* LESS */ 
 
@red: #c00; 
@black: #000; 
@white: #fff; 
 
/* SASS */ 
 
$red: #c00; 
$black: #000; 
$white: #fff; 

As you can see, that is pretty easy to do. A simple find and replace should do most of the work for you. However, if you are using @import in your stylesheets, make sure this retains an @ symbol.

Updating @import statements

Another small change in Sass is how you import different stylesheets using the @import keyword. First, let's take a look at how you do this in Less:

@import "components/_buttons.less"; 

Now let's compare how we do this using Sass:

@import "components/_buttons.scss"; 

As you can see, it's almost identical. You just need to make sure you name all your files with the .scss extension. Then update...