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Node.js Web Development - Third Edition

By : David Herron
Book Image

Node.js Web Development - Third Edition

By: David Herron

Overview of this book

Node.js is a server-side JavaScript platform using an event driven, non-blocking I/O model allowing users to build fast and scalable data-intensive applications running in real time. Node.js Web Development shows JavaScript is not just for browser-side applications. It can be used for server-side web application development, real-time applications, microservices, and much more. This book gives you an excellent starting point, bringing you straight to the heart of developing web applications with Node.js. You will progress from a rudimentary knowledge of JavaScript and server-side development to being able to create and maintain your own Node.js application. With this book you'll learn how to use the HTTP Server and Client objects, data storage with both SQL and MongoDB databases, real-time applications with Socket.IO, mobile-first theming with Bootstrap, microservice deployment with Docker, authenticating against third-party services using OAuth, and much more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Node.js Web Development Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Building a customized Bootstrap


One of the reasons to use Bootstrap is that you can rebuild a customized version fairly easily. The stylesheets are built using LESS, which is one of the CSS preprocessors to simplify CSS development. In Bootstrap's code, one file (less/variables.less) contains variables used throughout the rest of Bootstrap's .less files. Change one variable, and it can automatically affect the rest of Bootstrap.

Earlier, we overrode a couple of Bootstrap behaviors with our custom CSS file, public/stylesheets/style.css. This is acceptable for changing a couple of specific things, but that technique doesn't work for large-scale changes to Bootstrap. For serious Bootstrap customizations you'll want to learn your way around this file.

Let's set ourselves up to allow rebuilding a customized Bootstrap. First, run this:

$ cd bower_components/bootstrap
$ npm install
$ npm install grunt-cli

These commands install dependencies to support building Bootstrap. Fair warning, this can take...