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Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By : Matt Lambert
Book Image

Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By: Matt Lambert

Overview of this book

Bootstrap, the most popular front-end framework built to design elegant, powerful, and responsive interfaces for professional-level web pages has undergone a major overhaul. Bootstrap 4 introduces a wide range of new features that make front-end web design even simpler and exciting. In this gentle and comprehensive book, we'll teach you everything that you need to know to start building websites with Bootstrap 4 in a practical way. You'll learn about build tools such as Node, Grunt, and many others. You'll also discover the principles of mobile-first design in order to ensure your pages can fit any screen size and meet the responsive requirements. Learn to play with Bootstrap's grid system and base CSS to ensure your designs are robust and that your development process is speedy and efficient. Then, you'll find out how you can extend your current build with some cool JavaScript Plugins, and throw in some Sass to spice things up and customize your themes. This book will make sure you're geared up and ready to build amazingly beautiful and responsive websites in a jiffy.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introducing Bootstrap 4

Setting up the JSON files


Each Harp project has at least two JSON files that are used for configuring a project. JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation and it's a lightweight format for data interchange. If that sounds complicated, don't worry about it. The actual coding of a JSON file is actually really straightforward, as I will show you now.

The first is called _harp.json and it's used for configuring global settings and variables that will be used across the entire blog. In this case, we're going to set up a global variable for the name of our project that will be inserted into every page template. Start by creating a new file in the root of blog project and call it _harp.json. Within the file, insert the following code:

{ 
   "globals": { 
      "siteTitle": "Learning Bootstrap 4" 
   } 
} 

Here's what's happening in this code:

  • We're using the globals keyword so any variables under this will be available across all of our templates

  • I've created a new variable...