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Bootstrap 4 Cookbook

By : Ajdin Imsirovic
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Bootstrap 4 Cookbook

By: Ajdin Imsirovic

Overview of this book

Bootstrap, one of the most popular front-end frameworks, is perfectly built to design elegant, powerful, and responsive interfaces for professional-level web pages. It supports responsive design by dynamically adjusting your web page layout. Bootstrap 4 is a major update with many impressive changes that greatly enhance the end results produced by Bootstrap. This cookbook is a collection of great recipes that show you how to use all the latest features of Bootstrap to build compelling UIs. This book is using the most up-to-date version of Bootstrap 4 in all its chapters. First off, you will be shown how you can leverage the latest core features of Bootstrap 4 to create stunning web pages and responsive media. You will gradually move on to extending Bootstrap 4 with the help of plugins to build highly customized and powerful UIs. By the end of this book, you will know how to leverage, extend, and integrate bootstrap to achieve optimal results for your web projects.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Working with card layouts and the Flexbox grid


In this recipe, we will make layouts using the cards component with the help of Bootstrap 4 Flexbox grid to align them and look at some new CSS properties that will make the use of images in our cards easier by retaining their proper aspect ratio and preventing image stretching. We will also look at using lorempixel.com to create more believable mock-ups of our layouts.

Getting ready

To begin, open the completed page in your browser by navigating to the chapter8/complete/app folder and running the harp server command through the console. Point your browser to the completed recipe by visiting localhost:9000/chapter08-05. Observe the changes in the layout of the cards, components on different viewport resolutions.

How to do it…

  1. Open the chapter8/start folder. Inside that folder, open the app folder, and then open the file titled recipe08-05.ejs and paste in the code that follows:
<div class="container">
 <h2 class="mt-5 pb-3">Recipe 08...