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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 learned how to solve common user interface development requirements using third-party libraries. By improving various functionalities built out during the course of the previous chapters, we demonstrated how to detect a user's browser and its version using the jQuery browser plugin. We used the bootpag plugin to allow users to navigate data. Along with it, we enhanced the look and feel of our Events section using images and Lightbox for Bootstrap. We also looked at improving the usability of our price list using DataTables, discovered typeahead.js, and learned how to use tooltips and popovers.

Armed with the knowledge of how to use popular and widely adopted third-party libraries, we are now ready to customize Bootstrap's jQuery plugins to suit our exact needs. Let's move on to the next chapter!