Book Image

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

Importing partials in Sass


Just as you can do in Harp.js, you can use partials in Sass. If you've forgotten what a partial is, it's a little snippet of code that is saved into a different file and then imported into the main CSS theme or layout, in the case of Harp. This can be handy for making your CSS modular and easier to manage. For example, it would make a ton of sense to break every Bootstrap component into its own CSS file and then use the @import directive to bring them all into a single master theme, which is then included in your project. Let's go over an example of how you could do this for a single component. In your project, go to the /css directory and create a new sub-folder called /components. The the full path should be:

/css/components 

In the /components directory, create a new Sass file and name it _buttons.scss. Make sure you always insert an underscore at the start of the filename of a partial. The compiler will then ignore these files as the underscore means it...