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Mastering Bootstrap 4

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Mastering Bootstrap 4

Overview of this book

Bootstrap 4 is a free CSS and JavaScript framework that allows developers to rapidly build responsive web-interfaces. Right from the first chapter, dive into building a customized Bootstrap website from scratch. Get to grips with Bootstrap’s key features and quickly discover the various ways in which Bootstrap can help you develop web-interfaces. Then take walk through the fundamental features, such as its grid system, helper classes, and responsive utilities. When you have mastered these, you will discover how to structure page layouts, use forms, style different types of content and utilize Bootstrap’s various navigation components. Among other things, you will also tour the anatomy of a Bootstrap plugin, creating your own custom components and extending Bootstrap using jQuery. 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 be able to build highly customizable and optimized web interfaces.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering Bootstrap 4
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 7. Integrating Bootstrap with Third-Party Plugins

In this chapter, we are going to discover how to integrate some popular plugins and libraries into Bootstrap to enhance the user experience of MyPhoto.

We will identify new features or improvements we want to make to MyPhoto, introduce libraries to help us achieve those goals, and figure out how these can be gracefully integrated within our existing architecture.

This chapter will focus on the integration of three popular plugins and libraries, namely, Salvattore, Animate.css, and Hover. These libraries will allow us to improve the overall user experience of MyPhoto, creating a much more polished look and feel.

To summarize, this chapter will help us:

  • Learn how to leverage Salvattore to add more flexibility to Bootstrap's grid system

  • Learn how to leverage Animate.css to easily add CSS3 animations to a Bootstrap page

  • Learn how to leverage Hover to easily add hover effects to a Bootstrap page