Bootstrap for beginners

 

Bootstrap for beginners

You’ve definitely heard of this helpful resource for simpler page styles if you’ve found yourself here. Perhaps you have given it a shot on your own and found that you really don’t like it, at which point you started asking, “Why the hell do people say that it’s way easier to apply Bootstrap?”

What is Bootstrap?

Bootstrap is an open-source software package that can be used to build mobile-friendly websites and applications. It is the most widely used framework for creating mobile-friendly webpages with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The issue of incompatibility between browsers is just one of several that it fixes.

These days, websites work faultlessly across desktop, tablet, phablet, and mobile phone browsers and displays of all sizes. Bootstrap’s creators, Twitter’s Mark Otto, and Jacob Thornton, deserve all the credit.

Responsive

Marketed as “One framework, all devices,” Bootstrap aims to be universal in its applicability. The reason for this is that Bootstrap-created websites will automatically adjust to fit any screen size, whether it is a smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop computer, screen reader, etc.

Mobile-First

Bootstrap is built with mobile in mind and is responsive. This indicates that it was made with mobile devices in mind first and then expanded to other screen sizes (rather than the other way around).

Why Bootstrap?

• Faster and Easier Web Development.
• It creates Platform-independent web pages.
• It creates Responsive web pages.
• It is designed to be responsive to mobile devices too.
• It is Free! Available at www.getbootstrap.com.

Who’s using Bootstrap?

Bootstrap is flexible enough to be utilized for the development of sites of varying sizes, from personal blogs to major business portals. NASA, the University of Washington, FIFA, Newsweek, VOGUE, and many more are just a few of the numerous organizations that employ Bootstrap.

The Stages of Learning Bootstrap

In my experience, learning Bootstrap on your own with just the available documentation is quite challenging, and you will likely experience most of the following sensations along the way:

• You do not understand the main concept of it and think that it is not the powerful tool that you were expecting it to be.
• You try small tests, and then you just do not like them.
• Everything is not working, and then you start hating it.
• You remember how ‘easier’ it is with your CSS styling, and then you totally hate it.
• You finally understand the main concepts and start enjoying it a little bit.
• You understand how to apply and connect everything, and you finally love it.

Main Concepts You Must Know!

- Bootstrap

Bootstrap might be compared to a Lego set. You can construct whatever you choose out of these many little parts, but only if you do so in the right order.

Bootstrap was created so that we wouldn’t have to repeat the same boilerplate CSS code on every page. Finally, the end! Going to the Bootstrap Homepage and adding a link to the stylesheet and the javascript functionality (if needed) in your header is all that would be required if this were a stylesheet.

components requiring JavaScript

Then you just start plugging in all the little classes that Bootstrap gives you, and all the style is taken care of for you automatically. Once you have a firm grasp of the material, learning the fundamental classes and their interplay is a must.

The most important courses you’re likely to need are outlined here.

- -fluid

The element may be given a touch of responsiveness with the help of this class. It simply tells the browser that the component’s width should be 100% regardless of the viewport size.

- Grid

In my perspective, this is Bootstrap’s most valuable asset; yet, it does have some quirks.
If you wish to activate a grid, you must always use a row class and then nest the columns inside of it.

Important: Every row class creates 12 columns. Never forget about it.

Each row has 12 columns. Therefore, it’s time to put together your columns. The primary example involves putting together three columns. Even though it may be done by just adding three col classes, the following is the recommended way of doing things:

Note: When simply col classes are added, without an index specifying how many rows the component should take up, the content is split across the classes. Although this may be useful sometimes, it is not recommended.

So, how do you get to these columns and divide them up? You’ll need to nest one more row, which will also be split into 12 columns. That’s pretty straightforward, huh?

Responsiveness with Grid

Because of this quality, the grid is Bootstrap’s primary component.

Check out this viewport explanation from the official Bootstrap manual, which illustrates all of its breakpoints, for a complete understanding.

Viewport sizes range from XS (for very tiny displays) to XL (for extremely big screens). Then, if no higher-level viewport is established, every application you make for a viewport will be applied to all viewports above. It seems like common sense to me.

How can you get responsiveness, then?

It is simple! You are free to add multiple classes!

The following requirements will be used in the next illustration: The information should fill the whole screen on mobile devices (with only one column), two columns on tablets, and four columns on laptops and larger screens. All that’s required is to prepend the viewport to the index. The answer is as follows:

-Flex Display

Flex-box is a crucial component of CSS and Bootstrap, just as it is in any other framework.

Flex is used in Bootstrap to make the content fit inside the container or grid column. The primary purpose, as with the original application, is to justify or align the information with the principal direction selected as the reference.

Justifying and aligning text is very easy to do while using it. The following scenario illustrates its primary value.

Margins and Paddings

I’m guessing that up until this moment, this style was the most frequently coded element in your CSS. No more, however!

Bootstrap uses rem units, which range from 0 to 5, for margins and paddings. Negative margins may be used, and you can choose each side independently.

I’m not going to make up an example for this part! You’ll need to use these classes often after reading the documentation to become acclimated to how far they “move” the component from its initial position.

Learning and practicing Bootstrap via your projects can benefit your CSS code in general, not just the page on which you are utilizing the technology.

Because I put in the time and effort required at each stage — reading widely, trying things out, revising my approach until it made sense, and so on — I am now able to think naturally and coherently about the full product.

Bootstrap makes it simple to organize your page and write tiny classes that will accommodate n-components rather than just the components that are the same across your page. This results in cleaner, more compact code, which is, in my view, rather attractive.

If you are a beginner and you want some help with Bootstrap, follow me and ask for anything on Twitter and GitHub.