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Mastering Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By : Benjamin Jakobus
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Mastering Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By: Benjamin Jakobus

Overview of this book

Bootstrap 4 is a free CSS and JavaScript framework that allows developers to rapidly build responsive web interfaces. This book will help you use and adapt Bootstrap to produce enticing websites that fit your needs. You will build a customized Bootstrap website from scratch, using various approaches to customize the framework with increasing levels of skill. You will get to grips with Bootstrap's key features and quickly discover various ways in which Bootstrap can help you develop web interfaces. Then take a walk through the fundamental features, such as its grid system, global styles, helper classes, and responsive utilities. When you have mastered these, you will discover how to structure page layouts, utilize Bootstrap's various navigation components, use forms, and style different types of content. Among other things, you will also tour the anatomy of a Bootstrap plugin, create your own custom components, and extend Bootstrap using jQuery. You will also understand what utility classes Bootstrap 4 has to offer, and how you can use them effectively to speed up the development of your website. Finally, you will discover how to optimize your website and integrate it with third-party frameworks. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough knowledge of the framework's ins and outs, and will be able to build highly customizable and optimized web interfaces.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we covered the most important aspect of Bootstrap—its grid system. We learned how to use the grid system to structure a page, and how the grid system is actually implemented using breakpoints and media queries. As a result, we learned how to leverage Bootstrap to create a responsive web page and how to target specific content to specific displays. In addition, we also discovered a very nice feature of all the layout-specific utility classes—the fact that they can also be used as mixins and are indeed used as mixins within other Bootstrap classes. Leveraging these classes when we start writing custom style rules for MyPhoto will surely come in useful. As our understanding of Bootstrap is now sufficient enough to allow us to structure a basic page, let's proceed to the next chapter in which we will build the layout for our MyPhoto page.