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Node.js 6.x Blueprints

By : Fernando Monteiro
Book Image

Node.js 6.x Blueprints

By: Fernando Monteiro

Overview of this book

Node.js is the most popular framework to create server-side applications today. Be it web, desktop, or mobile, Node.js comes to your rescue to create stunning real-time applications. Node.js 6.x Blueprints will teach you to build these types of projects in an easy-to-understand manner. The key to any Node.js project is a strong foundation on the concepts that will be a part of every project. The book will first teach you the MVC design pattern while developing a Twitter-like application using Express.js. In the next chapters, you will learn to create a website and applications such as streaming, photography, and a store locator using MongoDB, MySQL, and Firebase. Once you’re warmed up, we’ll move on to more complex projects such as a consumer feedback app, a real-time chat app, and a blog using Node.js with frameworks such as loopback.io and socket.io. Finally, we’ll explore front-end build processes, Docker, and continuous delivery. By the end of book, you will be comfortable working with Node.js applications and will know the best tools and frameworks to build highly scalable desktop and cloud applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Node.js 6.x Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Changing the default bootstrap theme


We will show two ways to customize our blog: one superficial, changing only the stylesheet, and a deeper one, changing all the page's markup.

For the stylesheet changes, we are using the http://bootswatch.com/ free Bootstrap themes.

The bootstrap framework is very flexible for this; we will use a theme called the superhero.

  1. Go to the http://bootswatch.com/superhero/_variables.scss URL.

  2. Copy the page content.

  3. Inside public/styles/boostrap/bootstrap, create a new file called _theme_variables.scss and paste the code copied from the Bootswatch page.

  4. Open public/styles/bootstrap/_bootstrap.scss and replace the following  lines:

          // Core variables and mixins 
          @import "bootstrap/_theme_variables"; 
          @import "bootstrap/mixins";
    

    Now we will repeat steps 1 and 2, but now with a different URL.

  5. Go to the http://bootswatch.com/superhero/_bootswatch.scss URL.

  6. Copy the page content.

  7. Create a file called _bootswatch.scss in: public/styles/bootstrap and paste the...