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Bootstrap 4 Cookbook

By : Imsirovic

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Bootstrap 4 Cookbook

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By: Imsirovic

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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.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Installing Bootstrap 4 and Comparing Its Versions

Introduction

Installing Bootstrap 4 to Cloud9 IDE using npm

Installing Bootstrap 4 to Cloud9 IDE via Git

Installing Bootstrap 4 Jekyll-powered docs

Customizing the styles of Bootstrap 4 docs

Making custom Grunt tasks in Bootstrap 4

Comparing Bootstrap 4 versions with Bower

Installing Bootstrap 4 to our Cloud9 IDE with Bower

Layout Like a Boss with the Grid System

Introduction

Preparing a static server with Bootstrap 4, Harp, and Grunt

Deploying your web project with Surge

Splitting up our Harp project into partials

Using containers with margin and padding utility classes

Adding columns in a row

Making col-* classes work

Building a simple page with the default grid

Building a real-life web page example with the default grid

Power Up with the Media Object, Text, Images, and Tables

Introduction

Extending the text classes of .display-* and adding hover effects with Hover.css

Creating comment sections using media objects

Enriching text content with Bootstrap typography classes

Customizing the blockquote element with CSS

Extending the blockquote styles with Sass

Aligning text around images

Wrapping text around rounded images

Styling a pricing section using Bootstrap's default table classes

Diving Deep into Bootstrap 4 Components

Creating custom alerts and positioning them in the viewport

Making full-page modals

Altering the behavior of popups using tether options

Controlling the color and opacity of ToolTips using Sass variables

Using Bootstrap's Sass mixins to create custom buttons

Adjusting the rounding of corners on buttons and button groups

Controlling the number of card columns on different breakpoints with SCSS

Making cards responsive

Easily positioning inline forms

Menus and Navigations

Adding Font Awesome to Bootstrap navbar

Placing a single Bootstrap navbar dropdown to the right

Centering navbar links

Making a transparent navbar on a darker background

Creating a Navbar with Icons and Flexbox

Adding another row of links to the navbar

Adding Yamm3 Megamenu images to a navbar dropdown

Adding Yamm3 Megamenu list of links to a navbar dropdown

Extending Bootstrap 4

Introduction

Converting checkboxes into Toggles with Bootstrap Toggle plugin

Onboarding users with Shepherd

Toggling visibility of password fields with custom jQuery code

Extending the functionality of select elements with Bootstrap Select plugin

Customizing select boxes with Select2 plugin

Adding input sliders with Rangeslider.js

Allowing users to easily add dates to your input fields with jQuery UI Datepicker

Converting plain tables into sophisticated data tables with Bootgrid

Navigating easily with simple-sidebar jQuery plugin

Adding fully customizable notifications with Notify.js

Integrating a fancy modal using animatedModal.js

Making pagination dynamic with the jQuery Pagination plugin and simplePagination.js

Validating forms with svalidate.js

Adding a rating system using jQuery Bar Rating plugin

Make Your Own jQuery Plugins in Bootstrap 4

Introduction

Making the simplest possible jQuery plugin

Making the plugin customizable with the extend() and each() methods

Integrating a simple CSS Class Replacement plugin with Bootstrap 4

Bootstrap 4 Flexbox and Layouts

Introduction

Breakpoint-dependent switching of flex direction on card components

Letting cards take up space with the .flex-wrap and .col classes

Adding any number of columns with Flexbox

Combining numbered .col classes with plain .col classes

Working with card layouts and the Flexbox grid

Center-aligning cards on wider viewports only

Positioning nav-tabs with Flexbox

Workflow Boosters

Introduction

Customizing Bootstrap builds by cherry-picking Sass partials

Cleaning up unused CSS with UnCSS and Grunt

Removing CSS comments with the grunt-strip-CSS-comments plugin

Creating a Blog with Jekyll and Bootstrap 4

Making Jekyll work with Bootstrap 4

Splitting Jekyll files into partials

Making Jekyll blog-aware

Deploying your blog to the web with GitHub

Bootstrap 4 with ASP.NET Core

Starting a project in ASP.NET Core and Bootstrap 4 in Visual Studio 2017

Migrating the default web page of a .NET Core project from Bootstrap 3 to Bootstrap 4

Working with Bower, Sass, and Grunt in our .NET Core project

Integrating Bootstrap 4 with React and Angular

Introduction

Integrating Bootstrap 4 with React

Replacing the Default Styles in Angular 2 QuickStart with Bootstrap 4 CDN CSS

Integrating Angular 4 and Bootstrap 4 with the help of ng-bootstrap

Conclusion

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