Bootstrap, the most popular frontend 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 frontend web design even more simple and exciting. In this comprehensive tutorial, we'll teach you everything you need to know to start building websites with Bootstrap 4 in a practical way. You'll get a feel of build tools such as Node, Grunt, and more to start building your project. You'll discover the principles of mobile-first design to ensure your pages can adapt to fit any screen size and meet the responsive requirements of the modern age. You'll get to play with Bootstrap’s grid system and base CSS to ensure your designs are robust and beautiful, 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. If you’ve tinkered with Bootstrap before and are planning on migrating to the latest version, we’ll give you just the right tricks to get you there. This book will make sure you’re geared up and ready to build amazingly beautiful and responsive websites in a jiffy.
Chapter 1 , Introducing Bootstrap 4, will be a quick overview of what Bootstrap is, what's new in Bootstrap 4, and why a developer should take the time to learn about the new framework. We'll also discuss the basic files and templates needed for any web page. I'll also cover the different ways you can download or build a Bootstrap project.
Chapter 2 , Using Bootstrap Build Tools, will teach the user how to use build tools such as Node, Grunt, and Autoprefixer to build their own projects.
Chapter 3 , Jumping into Flexbox, will give a quick explanation of what a flexbox layout is compared to traditional layouts. Also, you will learn about the benefits of flexbox and when to use it. Then it will briefly explain how to create a flexbox layout using the new Bootstrap layout component and review it with the reader.
Chapter 4 , Working with Layouts, will teach you the basic Bootstrap layout components and what is new in Bootstrap 4 in regard to them. For the components that are significantly different, the chapter will provide coded examples for the users.
Chapter 5 , Working with Content, covers the new Bootstrap CSS reset named REBOOT. It will also cover typography, code, images, tables, and figure components.
Chapter 6 , Playing with Components, will be one of the longer chapters in the book as it will cover a large amount of Bootstrap components. It will cover all remaining Bootstrap components, including Buttons, button groups, button drop-down, forms, input groups, drop-downs, jumbotron, labels, alerts, cards, navs, navbars, breadcrumbs, pagination, progress, and list groups.
Chapter 7, Extending Bootstrap with JavaScript Plugin, will cover any and all components in Bootstrap that rely on JavaScript. This will include Modal, Tooltips, Popovers, Collapse, and Carousel.
Chapter 8, Throwing in Some Sass, will explain how, in Bootstrap 4, the framework has moved from Less to Sass as its CSS preprocessor. It will cover the basics of using Sass in a Bootstrap theme and explain how you can customize or use existing variables or write your own.
Chapter 9, Migrating from Version 3, will cover the basic steps required to migrate a website from version 3 to 4 and point out some of the known trouble areas for doing this.
To get started using Bootstrap 4 there are a few tools I would recommend installing on your computer. First of all you'll need a text editor like Sublime Text or Notepad. Secondly you'll need a command line tool. If you're on a MAC you can use Terminal which is included with OSX. If you're on Windows I would recommend downloading Cygwin. That's all you need to get started with the book. In Chapter 2, Using Bootstrap Build Tools, I'll cover the installation of a few other tools that we'll be using in our project like: Node.js, NPM, Grunt.js, Jekyll, Harp.js and Sass. If you already have those tools installed great! If not, don't worry we'll go through it step by step later in the book.
If you want to learn to build enterprise-level websites efficiently with Bootstrap, this book is for you. You must have a basic and fundamental understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; however, there is no need to have prior Bootstrap experience.
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