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Bootstrap 4 – Responsive Web Design

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  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Bootstrap 4 – Responsive Web Design
  4. Bootstrap 4 – Responsive Web Design
  5. Credits
  6. Preface
  7. What you need for this learning path
  8. Who this learning path is for
  9. Reader feedback
  10. Customer support
  11. 1. Module 1
  12. 1. Getting Started
  13. Setting up the framework
  14. Building our first Bootstrap example
  15. Optionally using the CDN setup
  16. Community activity
  17. Bootstrap and web applications
  18. Browser compatibility
  19. Summary
  20. 2. Creating a Solid Scaffolding
  21. Building our scaffolding
  22. Fluid container
  23. We need some style!
  24. Manipulating tables
  25. Like a boss!
  26. Final thoughts
  27. Summary
  28. 3. Yes, You Should Go Mobile First
  29. Bootstrap and the mobile-first design
  30. How to debug different viewports at the browser
  31. Cleaning up the mess
  32. Creating the landing page for different devices
  33. Summary
  34. 4. Applying the Bootstrap Style
  35. Summary
  36. 5. Making It Fancy
  37. Paying attention to your navigation
  38. Dropping it down
  39. Making an input grouping
  40. Getting ready for flexbox!
  41. Summary
  42. 6. Can You Build a Web App?
  43. Adding the navigation
  44. Do a grid again
  45. Playing the cards
  46. Implementing the main content
  47. Creating breadcrumbs
  48. Finishing with the right-hand-side content
  49. Summary
  50. 7. Of Course, You Can Build a Web App!
  51. Waiting for the progress bar
  52. Creating a settings page
  53. Summary
  54. 8. Working with JavaScript
  55. Awesome Bootstrap modals
  56. Creating our custom modal
  57. A tool for your tip
  58. Pop it all over
  59. Making the menu affix
  60. Finishing the web app
  61. Summary
  62. 9. Entering in the Advanced Mode
  63. The last navigation bar with flexbox
  64. Filling the main fluid content
  65. Filling the main content
  66. Overhead loading
  67. Fixing the toggle button for mobile
  68. Summary
  69. 10. Bringing Components to Life
  70. Fixing the mobile viewport
  71. Learning more advanced plugins
  72. Summary
  73. 11. Making It Your Taste
  74. Working with plugin customization
  75. The additional Bootstrap plugins
  76. Creating our Bootstrap plugin
  77. Defining the plugin methods
  78. Creating additional plugin methods
  79. Summary
  80. 2. Module 2
  81. 1. Introducing Bootstrap 4
  82. Summary
  83. 2. Using Bootstrap Build Tools
  84. Download the Bootstrap source files
  85. Setting up the blog project
  86. Setting up the JSON files
  87. Creating our first page template
  88. Summary
  89. 3. Jumping into Flexbox
  90. Ordering your Flexbox
  91. Wrapping your Flexbox
  92. Setting up the Bootstrap Flexbox layout grid
  93. Setting up a Flexbox project
  94. Designing a single blog post
  95. Summary
  96. 4. Working with Layouts
  97. Inserting rows into your layout
  98. Adding columns to your layout
  99. Choosing a column class
  100. Creating a simple three-column layout
  101. Mixing column classes for different devices
  102. Coding the blog home page
  103. Using responsive utility classes
  104. Summary
  105. 5. Working with Content
  106. Learning to use typography
  107. Customizing headings
  108. How to style images
  109. Coding tables
  110. Summary
  111. 6. Playing with Components
  112. Basic button examples
  113. Creating outlined buttons
  114. Checkbox and radio buttons
  115. Coding forms in Bootstrap 4
  116. Creating an inline form
  117. Adding validation to inputs
  118. Using the Jumbotron component
  119. Adding the Label component
  120. Using the Alerts component
  121. Using Cards for layout
  122. Updating the Blog index page
  123. How to use the Navs component
  124. Adding Breadcrumbs to a page
  125. Using the Pagination component
  126. How to use the List Group component
  127. Summary
  128. 7. Extending Bootstrap with JavaScript Plugins
  129. Coding Tooltips
  130. Avoiding collisions with our components
  131. Using Popover components
  132. Using the Collapse component
  133. Coding an Accordion with the Collapse component
  134. Coding a Bootstrap Carousel
  135. Summary
  136. 8. Throwing in Some Sass
  137. Using Sass in the blog project
  138. Importing partials in Sass
  139. Creating a collection of variables
  140. Customizing components
  141. Writing a theme
  142. Summary
  143. 9. Migrating from Version 3
  144. Big changes in version 4
  145. Updating your variables
  146. Additional global changes
  147. Other font updates
  148. Migrating components
  149. Migrating JavaScript
  150. Miscellaneous migration changes
  151. Summary
  152. 3. Module 3
  153. 1. Revving Up Bootstrap
  154. What Bootstrap 4 Alpha 4 has to offer
  155. Setting up our project
  156. Summary
  157. 2. Making a Style Statement
  158. Image elements
  159. Responsive utilities
  160. Helper classes
  161. Text alignment and transformation
  162. Summary
  163. 3. Building the Layout
  164. Adding Bootstrap components
  165. Summary
  166. 4. On Navigation, Footers, Alerts, and Content
  167. Improving navigation using Scrollspy
  168. Customizing scroll speed
  169. Icons
  170. Using and customizing alerts
  171. Creating a footer
  172. Creating and customizing forms
  173. Form validation
  174. Progress indicators
  175. Adding content using media objects
  176. Figures
  177. Quotes
  178. Abbreviations
  179. Summary
  180. 5. Speeding Up Development Using jQuery Plugins
  181. Enhanced pagination using bootpag
  182. Displaying images using Bootstrap Lightbox
  183. Improving our price list with DataTables
  184. Summary
  185. 6. Customizing Your Plugins
  186. Customizing plugins
  187. Writing a custom Bootstrap jQuery plugin
  188. Summary
  189. 7. Integrating Bootstrap with Third-Party Plugins
  190. Hover
  191. Summary
  192. 8. Optimizing Your Website
  193. Minifying CSS and JavaScript
  194. Introducing Grunt
  195. Running tasks automatically
  196. Stripping our website of unused CSS
  197. JavaScript file concatenation
  198. Summary
  199. 9. Integrating with AngularJS and React
  200. Introducing React
  201. Summary
  202. Bibliography
  203. Index

Chapter 2. Using Bootstrap Build Tools

In the previous chapter, we reviewed the process for setting up a basic Bootstrap template with the compiled framework files. What if you need to customize your Bootstrap build or you want to use additional development tools to make your life easier? This is possible through the use of a number of great tools. In this chapter, I'll show you how to install, set up, and use a number of build tools such as Node.js, Grunt.js, and Harp.js to extend Bootstrap and reveal the real power of the framework.

Different types of tools

When working with Bootstrap, there are really three types of tools you need to be aware of. The first two are Node.js and Grunt.js. These are build <ie>tools</ie> and they take the development framework files and build them into the final files that you want to include in the production version of your projects. You wouldn't include development files on your actual production web server, as they are tools. You want to compile your files into production-ready HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that a web server can read and a browser can translate into a website.

The second type of tool you might want to use is a static website generator such as Harp.js. I talked a little bit about Harp in the first chapter but I will review it again in a little more detail. The main advantages of using Harp are things such as variables and partials in HTML, and a reusable-template-based system for your pages that allows you to reuse code.

The final types of tool you can use with Bootstrap are CSS preprocessors. In Bootstrap 4, the only option is Sass and we'll cover that in more depth later. However, before you can really start to learn to use Sass, you need to learn how to compile it into regular CSS files. Once you do, you can also start to use things such as variables and mixins in your CSS to make your files cleaner and easier to write.

Installing Node.js

If you skipped installing Node.js in Chapter 1 , Introducing Bootstrap 4 then now is the time to follow along and install and configure all your build tools. Let's start by heading to its website, https://nodejs.org, and downloading Node.js:

Installing Node.js

Note

Node is a JavaScript runtime that uses Google Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. What that means is that Node is a JavaScript-based web server that you can run locally or in production. It includes an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model which is easy to use and lightweight. Node comes with a built-in package manager called npm which includes the largest ecosystem of open source libraries on the Web.

Follow the installation instructions on the Node.js website and once you're done, open up a command-line application such as Terminal or Cygwin. Run the following command:

$ node -v

This will print out the Node.js version number that you installed and will confirm that it worked. It should look something like this if successful:

$ v0.10.33

Updating npm

Now that Node is installed, let's ensure that the latest version of npm is also installed. npm is a package manager for Node and allows you to install useful tools such as Grunt, which we'll do in our next step.

Updating npm

To make sure the latest version of npm is installed, run the following command in the Terminal:

npm update -g npm

Note

You may need to include sudo before this command in some cases.

Once the update is complete, we can safely start to install the other packages we'll need for our Bootstrap development environment.

Installing Grunt

Grunt is a JavaScript task runner and it's the tool that will do the actual compiling and building of the development Bootstrap files into the production versions.

Installing Grunt

Grunt provides automation and allows you to chain together repetitive tasks such as compiling, minification, linting, and unit testing. Therefore, it's commonly used in frameworks such as Bootstrap to build the source files into production. To install Grunt, run the following command in the Terminal:

npm install -g grunt-cli

If you receive any errors, you may need to add sudo to the beginning of the above command. After finishing your installation, run the following command to check the Grunt version number and confirm that everything is working properly:

$ grunt -V

You should expect to see something like this printed out in the Terminal:

grunt-cli v0.1.13