Mastering Bootstrap 4

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Mastering Bootstrap 4

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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.

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Revving Up Bootstrap

Introducing our demo project

What Bootstrap 4 has to offer

Setting up our project

Summary

Making a Style Statement

The grid system

Image elements

Responsive utilities

Summary

Building the Layout

Creating sections

Adding Bootstrap components

Summary

On Navigation, Footers, Alerts, and Content

Fixating the navbar

Improving navigation using Scrollspy

Breadcrumbs

Icons

Creating a footer

Creating and customizing forms

Form validation

Progress indicators

Adding content using media objects

Figures

Summary

Speeding Up Development Using Third-Party Plugins

Browser detection

Enhanced pagination using bootpag

Displaying images using Bootstrap Lightbox

Improving our price list with DataTables

Typeahead

Tooltips

Popovers

Summary

Customizing Your Plugins

Anatomy of a plugin

Customizing plugins

Writing a custom Bootstrap jQuery plugin

Summary

Advanced Third-Party Plugins

Building a testimonial component with Salvattore

Hover

Summary

Utilities

Flexbox

Display properties and alignment

Borders

Context colors

Margins and padding

Floating

Fixing

Toggling visibility

Text alignment and transformation

Highlighting text

Reducing text size

Lists

Width and height

Code

Sub and sup

Formatting user input

Formatting user output

Clearfix

Summary

List Groups and Accordions

List groups

Collapsing content

Summary

Optimizing Your Website

CSS optimization

Minifying CSS and JavaScript

Introducing Grunt

Running tasks automatically

Stripping our website of unused CSS

JavaScript file concatenation

Summary

Integrating with AngularJS and React

Introducing AngularJS

Introducing React

Summary

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Speeding Up Development Using Third-Party Plugins

The previous chapter showed us how to style the content for MyPhoto and how to improve a website's overall appearance by using and customizing different Bootstrap components. We learned how to use Bootstrap's navbar, how to use icons, and how to customize a website's scrolling behavior using the Scrollspy plugin.

In this chapter, we will emphasize the power of third-party plugins, introducing you to some essential third-party (and hence non-Bootstrap) plugins that will help speed up the development of the most common and mundane features of your website. Building on the features implemented throughout the previous chapters, we will first teach you how to quickly and efficiently implement client-side browser detection using the jQuery browser plugin (jquery.browser). We will then improve the display of our tabular...