Learning Bootstrap 4 (pdf)

Description

Book Description

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 tutorial, we’ll teach you everything you need to know to start building websites with Bootstrap 4 in a practical way. You’ll get a feel of build tools such as Node, Grunt, and more to start building your project. You’ll discover the principles of mobile-first design to ensure your pages can adapt to fit any screen size and meet the responsive requirements of the modern age. You’ll get to play with Bootstrap’s grid system and base CSS to ensure your designs are robust and beautiful, 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. If you’ve tinkered with Bootstrap before and are planning on migrating to the latest version, we’ll give you just the right tricks to get you there.

This book will make sure you’re geared up and ready to build amazingly beautiful and responsive websites in a jiffy.

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”
• 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

About the Author

Matt Lambert is a designer and developer with 15+ years of experience. He currently works full-time as a Senior Software Engineer for CA Technologies in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

In his free time, he is an author, artist, and musician. In 2005, Matt founded Cardeo Creative, which is a small web design studio based in Vancouver. He works with a select list of clients on a part-time basis while producing his own products on the side.

To date, Matt has self-published three additional development books titled: Mastering Bootstrap, CSS3 Handbook, and the Freelance Startup Guide. He is also the author of Bootstrap Blueprints Volume II.