What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with Bootstrap, is a short introduction to the technology. This chapter explains the need for Bootstrap in addition to explaining the paradigm related to the mobile-first approach adopted by Bootstrap to streamline web designing.

Chapter 2, Installing and Customizing Bootstrap, discusses the inclusion of Bootstrap with relevant information, overriding with customized styles, the deep customization of Bootstrap, and compiling LESS files in a practical manner.

Chapter 3, Using the Bootstrap Grid, starts with usage of the Bootstrap Grid classes wherein you learn about adding rows and columns and offsets, nesting of columns, and using the different variables and mixins and summing it up with a real-time example of creating a custom blog layout.

Chapter 4, Using the Base CSS, builds up from explaining the typography and subsequently moves on to explain the various facets of CSS including tables, forms, buttons, and the various responsive utilities in a step-by-step approach also including the helper classes used extensively in Bootstrap.

Chapter 5, Adding Bootstrap Components, incorporates the learning of the popular components such as the Glyphicons and Breadcrumbs in addition to the different navigation components such as nav tabs, nav pills, and dropdowns, which help you to build interactive webpages.

Chapter 6, Doing More with Components, contains an extensive in-depth understanding of the remaining components such as wells, labels, progress bars, badges, panels, alerts, and pagination, which form a crux of modern websites enabling you to build aesthetic websites.

Chapter 7, Enhancing User Experience with JavaScript, deals with official and optional plugins to create modals, carousels, tooltips, and accordion, which empowers you to develop dynamic webpages in a jiffy thereby eliminating the need to write exhaustive and humongous code for those attributes.

Chapter 8, Bootstrap Technical Hub – A One-stop Shop for Powerful Bootstrap Utilities, helps you to leverage the benefits of third-party toolkits and themes tailored to streamline your web designing experience with Bootstrap. This section is a one-stop solution to a plethora of relevant resources such as templates, custom layouts, and code snippets that enable to build robust user interfaces in quick time and with minimum effort. It also includes an overview of the future of Bootstrap, the next steps, and the myriad compatibility with WordPress, Joomla, and the likes of it which make an imperative framework for futuristic web design.

Bonus Chapter, Building an E-Commerce Website with Bootstrap, describes the procedure to build a modern e-commerce website in a step-by-step format, which will help you to understand the web designing aspects in a real-world scenario. This bonus chapter is a sample example for readers who want to leverage the knowledge gained to build enterprise-level websites with relative ease in a systematic and efficient manner. This chapter can be found online at https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/Building%20an%20e-commerce%20Website%20with%20Bootstrap.pdf.