Learning Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition

Unearth the potential of Bootstrap 4 to create highly responsive and beautiful websites using modern web techniques

About This Book

• This book shows how to take advantage of the all new features introduced in Bootstrap

• Learn responsive web design and discover how to build mobile-ready websites with ease

• Find out how to extend the capabilities of Bootstrap with a huge range of tools and plugins, including jQuery,

• Do more with JavaScript and learn how to create an enhanced user experience

Who This Book Is For

If you want to learn to build enterprise-level websites efficiently with Bootstrap, this book is for you. You must have a basic and fundamental understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; however, there is no need to have prior Bootstrap experience.

What You Will Learn • Fire up Bootstrap and set up the required build tools to get started

• See how and when to use Flexbox with the Bootstrap layouts

• Find out how to make your websites responsive, keeping in mind Mobile First design

• Work with content such as tables and figures

• Play around with the huge variety of components that Bootstrap offers

• Extend your build using plugins developed from JavaScript

• Use Sass to customize your existing themes

In Detail

Bootstrap, the most popular front-end framework built to design elegant, powerful, and responsive interfaces for professional-level web pages has undergone a major overhaul. Bootstrap 4 introduces a wide range of new features that make front-end web design even simpler and exciting.

In this gentle and comprehensive book, we'll teach you everything that you need to know to start building websites with Bootstrap 4 in a practical way. You'll learn about build tools such as Node, Grunt, and many others. You'll also discover the principles of mobile-first design in order to ensure your pages can fit any screen size and meet the responsive requirements. Learn to play with Bootstrap's grid system and base CSS to ensure your designs are robust and that your development process is speedy and efficient. Then, you'll find out how you can extend your current build with some cool JavaScript Plugins, and throw in some Sass to spice things up and customize your themes. This book will make sure you're geared up and ready to build amazingly beautiful and responsive websites in a jiffy.

Style and approach

With the help of several real-world examples and code, this book will teach you to build a full-featured responsive website in Bootstrap, which is mobile-ready.

© 2016 Packt Publishing (Ebook): 9781785888595

Release date

Ebook: August 26, 2016