LEARNING PATH: Responsive Web Development with Bootstrap 4

Course details

Bootstrap is a free, open source collection of tools that helps developers create websites or web applications. It provides a faster, easier, and less repetitive solution to designing and building applications. Before Bootstrap's release, it was necessary to import a variety of libraries into your project that offered different components and features for web interface development. Plus with the increased popularity of smartphones there were lack of libraries that could handle the responsiveness of a web page. Bootstrap's existence let it quickly become famous as a front-end framework that offered a wide set of tools from page grid up to components that render a web page in the best possible way for any device. So, if you're a frontend developer who is looking forward to build amazing cross-platform responsive applications, then go for this Learning Path.

Packt's Video Learning Path is 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.

The highlights of this Learning Path are:

• Speed up front-end development and prototyping through real-life examples
• Build a Twitter-type web application

Let's take a quick look at your learning journey. This Learning Path starts off with an introduction to the Bootstrap framework and setting up an environment to build a simple web page. You will then understand the grid system, basic Bootstrap components, HTML elements, and customization components for responsive and mobile first development with the help of an example. Next, you will learn how to create a web application like Twitter by using the full set of components offered in the framework. Finally, you will learn to create a dashboard web app, using Bootstrap to its finest potential including component customizations, event handling, and external library integration.

By the end of this Learning Path, you will be familiar with the development of a plugin for the framework and Bootstrap's world which is popular for fast paced front-end web development, used in countless projects all over the world, and now yours.

Meet Your Expert(s):

We have the best work of the following esteemed author(s) to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:

• Silvio Moreto is a developer with more than 7 years of 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.He is also the creator of the bootstrap-select plugin, which is very popular among the community and replaces a selected element with a Bootstrap button drop-down element. He foresaw that a plugin like this was missing from the original framework, and could be useful for the community. So he created the plugin, and the community helps him maintain it.