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Creating Interfaces with Bulma

By : Jeremy Thomas, Oleksii Potiekhin, Mikko Lauhakari, Aslam Shah, Dave Berning
Book Image

Creating Interfaces with Bulma

By: Jeremy Thomas, Oleksii Potiekhin, Mikko Lauhakari, Aslam Shah, Dave Berning

Overview of this book

Bulma is a lightweight configurable CSS framework that handles all the hard work of Flexbox for you. Bulma makes creating web interfaces an easy and interesting job. This book begins with an overview of the basics of Bulma ? its terms and its concepts. Then, while designing a login page for your application, you’ll learn how to use the various tools provided by Bulma to create HTML forms and control their layout and flow. In the later chapters, you’ll design an admin area for your application, thus learning to use Bulma’s navigation and menu components. You will also add the components to your user interface for common things such as boxes, lists, and media groups, and then create pagination. As you progress through the book, you’ll create and layout some other components for your interface, including tables, design dropdown lists, and finally to integrate your web application with JavaScript. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use the features of Bulma to your advantage and build web interfaces quickly and easily.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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8. Creating more tables and selecting dropdowns

Importing Bulma

You have installed Bulma locally on your machine, but you are not using it yet.

Because you are going to update the .scss file quite frequently from now on, run npm start instead: this will watch the file for changes.

In your empty custom.scss file, add:

@import "node_modules/bulma/bulma";

Save the file. Since a change in the file has occurred, you will see this output in the terminal:

=> changed: /path/to/html/sass/custom.scss
Rendering Complete, saving .css file...
Wrote CSS to /path/to/html/css/custom.css

Everything is back to normal. Instead of importing the generated .css file from the CDN, you are importing the Sass version of Bulma into your custom.scss file, which then generates the custom.css.

Since you haven’t made any changes yet, you can’t see any differences. The first step to create your custom design is to import new font families.