LEARNING PATH: Responsive App Development with Bootstrap 4

Course details

Are you interested to fast-track your web development skills to build elegant and responsive web applications with Bootstrap 4? then you should go for this Learning Path.

Packt's Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.

Bootstrap quickly became famous as a frontend framework that offered a wide set of tools from page grids up to components that render a web page, all in the best possible way for any device.Bootstrap is an open-source collection of tools that helps developers create websites and web applications. It provides a faster, easier, and less repetitive solution to designing and building applications. It includes HTML and CSS based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, tables, navigation, modals, image carousels, and optional JavaScript plugins.

The highlights of this Learning Path are:

• Use Bootstrap 4 to build professionally designed and attention-grabbing user interfaces
• Develop an app like Twitter

Let's take a quick look at your learning journey. This Learning Path will take you through an exiting journey, all the way from the basic concepts of Bootstrap to creating stunning UIs, and will keep you up-to-date with the best practices of modern web design. You'll discover the responsive revolution and how to use all the latest features of Bootstrap to build compelling UIs and useful web pages. You'll then learn where the web heading is and how you can stay on top of the mobile trend to layout and customize your Bootstrap 4 web design.

Moving further, you'll learn various examples on how to create interesting web applications resembling Twitter using Bootstrap and how to master frontend frameworks. You'll build a web application that only uses Bootstrap elements and components and use some JavaScript plugins in the web application. Finally, you'll dive into Bootstrap 4 components and tweak into advanced controls to create stunning web designs for your bigger projects.

Towards the end of this Learning Path, you'll have created an elegant web application that looks like Twitter and a dashboard.

Meet Your Experts:

We have combined the best works of the following esteemed authors to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:

• ThrandurArnthorsson has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Iceland and a diploma in entrepreneurship from Klak Business Accelerator. He has a great passion for spreading the joy of web design and web development using best practices and simple and easy to use tools—preferably free. Over the years, Thrandur has created a number of popular websites and rock-solid software solutions—many for high-paying customers. Recently, he discovered how to use free tools such as Inkscape and Bootstrap to create beautiful web designs and how to use WordPress, Bootstrap, PHP, and MySQL for profitable web development. He has proved his experience in various fields such as WordPress development, and custom themes and plugins using Bootstrap, PHP, and MySQL. He has excelled in web design using Inkscape and Bootstrap. Utilizing Trello and Google Drive, Thrandur has managed multiple projects. He has worked in software development for over 30 years with various tools. He is adept at using Camtasia and Sony Vegas Movie studio to indulge in video creation. He is also an expert at authority site building to ensure best ways for Google search, Facebook, and YouTube.

• Silvio Moreto is a developer with more than 7 years' experience with frontend technologies and has created many websites and web applications using the Bootstrap framework. From simple pages to complex ones, he has always used the Bootstrap framework. Silvio is also the creator of the bootstrap-select plugin. This plugin (very popular among the community) replaces a selected element with a Bootstrap button drop-down element. Silvio foresaw that a plugin like this one was missing in the original framework, and could be useful for the community. So he created the plugin, and the community helps him maintain it. Besides this, he is very active in the open-source community, participating in some open-source repository and issue communities, such as Stack Overflow. Also, he finished third in the worldwide Django Dash 2013 challenge.