Table of Contents for
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

Download the Bootstrap source files

To allow us to compile source files into production, we now need to download the Bootstrap source files and install them on our local machine. Head to the following URL and download the Bootstrap source files: http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/getting-started/download/.

Once you've download the files, unzip the package and move the directory to where you want it to live on your computer. If you just want to leave it on the desktop for now, that is fine. You can safely move the project around before or after editing it. The next thing you need to do is install the project dependencies. First, navigate to the root of the download package in the Terminal. It will likely be called something like bootstrap-4.0.0-alpha.2. Once you are there, run the following command to install the files:

$ npm install

If you get any type of error, try including sudo at the beginning of the command.

Note

If you are using sudo, you'll likely be prompted for your system password. Type it in then hit Enter to execute the command.

Installing Ruby

Another tool you need to work with the Bootstrap source files is Ruby. Ruby is an objected-oriented programming language that was designed in the 1990s in Japan. If you are familiar with Perl, you will likely enjoy Ruby, as Perl was the main inspiration for the language.

Installing Ruby

In Bootstrap, Ruby is used to run the documentation website and to compile the core Sass files into regular CSS. For the Bootstrap documentation, you can always visit http://getbootstrap.com/. However, in some cases, you may find yourself offline, so you might want to install a local version of the docs that you can use. Let's first start by installing Ruby before we get to the documentation.

Good news! If you're on a Mac, Ruby comes pre-installed with OS X. Run the following command to check the Ruby version number and verify that it's available:

$ ruby -v

If Ruby is installed, you should see something like this in the Terminal:

$ ruby 1.9.2p320 (2012-04-20 revision 35421) [x86_64-
    darwin12.3.0]

If you're on a Windows machine, you may need to manually install Ruby. If that's the case, check out the following website to learn how to install it: http://rubyinstaller.org/.

Installing the Bundler gem

After Ruby is ready to roll, you need to install a Ruby gem called Bundler. In the words of the developers of Bundler: Bundler provides a consistent environment for Ruby projects by tracking and installing the exact gems and versions that are needed. For more info on Bundler, please visit http://bundler.io/.

Don't worry too much about what Bundler does. The important thing is to just install it and move on.

  1. To do this, we need to run the following command in the Terminal in your Bootstrap source file root directory:
    $ gem install bundler
  2. Again, if you get any errors, just begin the command with sudo. To confirm your installation of Bundler, run the following command to view the version number as in our previous examples:
    $ bundler -v
  3. If all is good, you should see something like this printed out in the Terminal:
    $ Bundler version 1.11.2
  4. The last step you need to do is install the actual documentation bundle of files. Do this by running the following command in the Terminal from your root Bootstrap directory:
    $ bundle install
  5. This will install all Ruby dependencies, such as Jekyll, which is used for the documentation, and the Sass compiler we'll need a little later in the book. If you're a Windows user and you want to run the Jekyll documentation locally then you should check this out: http://jekyll-windows.juthilo.com/.

    Note

    Jekyll is a database-independent static site generator that will convert plain text into a static website or blog. You can write templates in Markdown, Textile, Liquid, or HTML and CSS. On deployment, the code will be compiled into production-ready files that can be uploaded to a web server or run locally. That completes the setup for the first part of the Bootstrap build tools. Before we move onto the static site generator portion, let me show you how to run the documentation locally.

Installing the Bundler gem

Running the documentation

Getting the documentation running locally is actually pretty easy. From the root of the Bootstrap source file directory, run the below command in the terminal:

bundle exec jekyll serve

In the Terminal, you'll see that the server is running. The next step is to open up a web browser and enter the following address:http://localhost:9001/

The Bootstrap documentation website will load up and now you have a local version of the documentation! To quit out of the server, hit Ctrl + C and you will exit.

Setting up the static site generator

In Chapter 1, Introducing Bootstrap 4 I gave you a quick overview of setting up Harp.js, which is a static site generator. In this chapter, I'll go into more depth on how to properly set up your website, CSS, HTML, and JavaScript files. Before I do that though, we should talk about why you might want to use Harp.js.

Setting up the static site generator

Why use Harp.js

There are a number of great arguments for using a static site generator such as Harp.js: cleaner code, modern best practices, and more. However, the best reason is that it will just make your life simple. Instead of having to update a header on all 50 pages of the website, you can simply update the header partially and then have that compiled into all your templates. You can also take advantage of using variables to insert content and configuration.

Installing Harp.js

Harp is another project that runs on Node.js so we can use npm to install it with the following command:

$ sudo npm install -g harp

Note

If you did this in Chapter 1, Introducing Bootstrap 4, you can skip down to the next part of this chapter.

To confirm that Harp was successfully installed, let's use our version-checking trick by entering the following command into the Terminal:

$ harp version

If all is good, you should see something like this printed out in the Terminal:

$ 0.14.0

Harp is now installed and we can move on to setting up our project for the book.