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Bootstrap 4 By Example

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Bootstrap 4 By Example

Overview of this book

Bootstrap is a free, open source collection of tools that helps developers create websites or web applications. It provides a faster, easier, and less repetitive solution to designing and building applications. Before Bootstrap’s release, it was necessary to import a variety of libraries into your project that offered different components and features for web interface development. Plus with the increased popularity of smartphones there were lack of libraries that could handle the responsiveness of a web page. Bootstrap‘s existence let it quickly become famous as a front-end framework that offered a wide set of tools from page grid up to components that render a web page in the best possible way for any device. This book will be a tutorial covering various examples as well as step-by-step methodology to create interesting web applications using Bootstrap and to understand the front-end framework to its core. We begin with an introduction to the Bootstrap framework and setting up an environment to build a simple web page. We then cover the grid system, basic Bootstrap components, HTML elements, and customization components for responsive and mobile first development. This is presented by creating a beautiful Landing page sample. You will also learn how to create a web application like Twitter by using the full set of components offered in the framework. Finally, you will learn to create a dashboard web app, using Bootstrap to its finest potential including component customizations, event handling, and external library integration. All these examples are explained step-by-step and in depth, while covering the versions 3 and the most recent version 4 of Bootstrap. So, you will be in the state of the art for front-end development. By the end of this book, you will be familiar with the development of a plugin for the framework and Bootstrap’s world which is popular for fast paced front-end web development, used in countless projects all over the world, and now yours.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Bootstrap 4 By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Changing our grid layout


First of all, the grid that we used for the current landing page is just a showcase of Bootstrap's potential and possibilities of customization. In this chapter, our objective is to make the grid fancier and more beautiful. To do this, we will change the grid to be like the one presented in the next figure.

We will go a little faster this time, since you already know how to create the grid using Bootstrap. Also, we will go mobile-first, as we discussed in the last chapter, but the screenshots will be taken from larger viewports just to improve the understandability.

Starting over the grid system

As you can see in the grid image, we split the grid into six parts. This time, each part will be a section that we will present step by step. If you are starting the example from scratch, don't forget to keep the boilerplate that we presented previously.

The header

So, we will start with the header. The code for representing the grid presented should be this one, to be placed...