Mastering BootStrap 4 - Second Edition: Develop highly customized responsive web interfaces with Bootstrap 4

Learn to build beautiful and highly customizable websites by leveraging the power of Bootstrap 4

Key Features

• Master the art of creating highly intuitive and responsive web interfaces with Bootstrap 4
• Combine the power of Bootstrap and popular front-end JavaScript frameworks to build cutting edge web apps
• Infuse your web pages with life and movement using Bootstrap jQuery plugin

Book Description

Bootstrap 4 is a free CSS and JavaScript framework that allows developers to rapidly build responsive web-interfaces. This book will help you adapt and customize Bootstrap to produce enticing websites that fit your needs.

Right from the first chapter, dive into building a customized Bootstrap website from scratch, along with migration to Bootstrap 4 and various approaches to customizing the framework involving increasing skill levels. Get to grips with Bootstrap's key features and quickly discover the various ways in which Bootstrap can help you develop web-interfaces. Then take walk through the fundamental features, such as its grid system, global styles, the z-index, helper classes, and responsive utilities. When you have mastered these, you will discover how to structure page layouts, extensive coverage on forms: how to use and customize it, style different types of content and utilize Bootstrap's various navigation components. 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 Bootstrap's new ES6 JavaScript plugging, and learn what utility classes Bootstrap 4 has to offer, and how you can use them effectively to speed up the development of your website.

Moving on, how to use Bootstrap's more advanced components such as accordions and list groups. 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 be able to build highly customizable and optimized web interfaces.

What You Will Learn

• Create a professional Bootstrap-based website from scratch without using third-party templates
• Various approaches to adding Bootstrap to your project for use and customization - including the compiled CSS and JavaScript files
• Apply the Bootstrap mobile-first grid system and add responsiveness and aesthetic touches to image elements
• Style various types of content and learn how to build a page's layout from scratch by applying the power of Bootstrap 4
• Take advantage of Bootstrap's form helper and contextual classes
• Improve your website's overall user experience with headers and footers
• Enhance and customize the overall design of your website with icons
• Infuse your web pages with life and movement using Bootstrap jQuery plugins
• Customize the behavior and features of Bootstrap's jQuery Plugins extensively
• Understand Bootstrap's new ES6 JavaScript plugging
• Optimize your Bootstrap-based project before deployment
• Learn what utility classes Bootstrap 4 has to offer, how they are implemented and how to best use them.
• Create more advanced web interfaces by leveraging the power of accordions, dropdowns and list groups.
• Incorporate Bootstrap into an AngularJS or React application and use Bootstrap components as AngularJS directives or React components

Who This Book Is For

This book targets front-end web-developers who wish to leverage Bootstrap 4 to create responsive web applications. Basic knowledge of web development and web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is required.