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Mastering Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By : Benjamin Jakobus
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Mastering Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

By: Benjamin Jakobus

Overview of this book

Bootstrap 4 is a free CSS and JavaScript framework that allows developers to rapidly build responsive web interfaces. This book will help you use and adapt Bootstrap to produce enticing websites that fit your needs. You will build a customized Bootstrap website from scratch, using various approaches to customize the framework with increasing levels of skill. You will get to grips with Bootstrap's key features and quickly discover various ways in which Bootstrap can help you develop web interfaces. Then take a walk through the fundamental features, such as its grid system, global styles, helper classes, and responsive utilities. When you have mastered these, you will discover how to structure page layouts, utilize Bootstrap's various navigation components, use forms, and style different types of content. Among other things, you will also tour the anatomy of a Bootstrap plugin, create your own custom components, and extend Bootstrap using jQuery. You will also understand what utility classes Bootstrap 4 has to offer, and how you can use them effectively to speed up the development of your website. Finally, you will discover how to optimize your website and integrate it with third-party frameworks. By the end of this book, you will have a thorough knowledge of the framework's ins and outs, and will be able to build highly customizable and optimized web interfaces.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introducing AngularJS


AngularJS is a popular and powerful JavaScript framework created by Google. AngularJS provides easily consumable abstractions on top of JavaScript to aid the development of web applications. These abstractions include easy-to-use form validation, two-way data binding, custom HTML attributes called directives for dynamic data and rendering, a simple interface for XMLHttpRequest (XHR), the ability to create custom directives, single-page application routing, and more.

We will not cover the intricacies and the vastness of AngularJS, but we will learn how to leverage AngularJS's built-in directives, how to create custom directives and services, and how to use AngularJS's XHR interface.

First, let's add AngularJS to our project.

Setting up AngularJS

The AngularJS team maintains a NPM package with the latest release. Let's install AngularJS. We will use version 1.4.8 of AngularJS:

  1. In the terminal, run this from the src directory:
        npm install [email protected]
  1. Create a copy of...