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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

Typeahead


Although auto-completion of user input does not fit perfectly into the context of MyPhoto, it is still a very common requirement, so we should dedicate a short section to the topic (albeit without integrating the functionality into MyPhoto). Auto-completion allows for the partial display of a list of items based on user input, and effectively avoids having to load a large amount of data all at once as well as overloading the user with potential choices. One popular third-party library that works seamlessly with Bootstrap is typeahead.js. As noted on their official Github repository (https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js), typeahead.js is:

"Inspired by the autocomplete search functionality of twitter.com, typeahead.js is a flexible JavaScript library that provides a strong foundation for building robust typeaheads." "The typeahead.js library consists of two components: the suggestion engine, Bloodhound, and the UI view, Typeahead. The suggestion engine is responsible for computing...