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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

Using Sass in the blog project


As I mentioned in the previous section, Sass is part of the development process and the browser cannot read it in its native format. Before you can deploy the project, you need to convert or compile the Sass files into regular CSS files. Normally this would require you to install a Ruby gem and you would have to manually compile your code before you can test it. Luckily for us, Harp.js actually has an Sass compiler built into it. So when you run the harp compile command to build your templates, it will also build your Sass files into regular CSS. I bet you're starting to like Harp even more after learning that.

Updating the blog project

Before we go any further, we need to make a few updates to our blog project to set it up for Sass. Head to your project directory and navigate to the CSS directory. In this directory, create a new file called custom.scss.

Note

The file extension used for Sass files is .scss.

What we're doing here is creating a custom style sheet...