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Bootstrap 4 Site Blueprints - Second Edition

By : Ian Whitney, David Cochran
Book Image

Bootstrap 4 Site Blueprints - Second Edition

By: Ian Whitney, David Cochran

Overview of this book

Packed with trade secrets, this second edition is your one-stop solution to creating websites that will provide the best experience for your users. We cover six popular, real-world examples, where each project teaches you about the various functionalities of Bootstrap 4 and their implementation. The book starts off by getting you up and running with the new features of Bootstrap 4 before gradually moving on to customizing your blog with Bootstrap and SASS, building a portfolio site, and turning it into a WordPress theme. In the process, you will learn to recompile Bootstrap files using SASS, design a user interface, and integrate JavaScript plugins. Towards the end of the book, you will also be introduced to integrating Bootstrap 4 with popular application frameworks such as Angular 2, Ruby on Rails, and React.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Bootstrap 4 Site Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 3. Customizing Your Blog with Bootstrap and Sass

In this chapter, you will study Sass in detail. Sass is a preprocessor for CSS. The Sass team says:

"Sass is the most mature, stable, and powerful professional grade CSS extension language in the world."

The CSS code of Bootstrap is built with Sass. In this chapter, you will build a simple design with mostly Bootstrap components. You will use Sass to modify and extend Bootstrap's code. At the beginning of the chapter, you will read about the features Sass adds to CSS and how it helps you to code your CSS more efficiently and in a DRY manner.

After reading this chapter, you will:

  • Understand the power of Sass

  • Know how to modify Bootstrap's CSS

  • Know how to extend Bootstrap's CSS code

  • Know how to reuse Bootstrap's Sass mixin