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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned how to integrate more third-party JavaScript and CSS libraries with our Bootstrap website, through Salvattore, Animate.css, and Hover.

We were able to leverage Salvattore to add extra flexibility to Bootstrap's native grid system. We also saw how to integrate Animate.css to add interesting transitions to MyPhoto, while integrating heavily with both Bootstrap and Salvattore. To improve the user experience of MyPhoto, we saw how to leverage Hover, which has allowed us to provide improved visual cues to the user.

While Bootstrap provides a great amount of functionality out of the box, using narrowly focused libraries such as Salvattore, Animate.css, and Hover can really improve the look and feel of a website.

Let's move on to Chapter 8, Utilities, in which we will learn more about Bootstrap's utility classes.