Extending Bootstrap

Christoffer Niska

Mar 2014 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Practical and instruction-based, this concise book will take you from understanding what Bootstrap is, to creating your own Bootstrap theme in no time! If you are an intermediate front-end developer or designer who wants to learn the secrets of Bootstrap, this book is perfect for you.

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We start by learning the pros and cons of bootstrap, as well as how to decide whether or not to use bootstrap in a project. We then go on to create our first bootstrap project. We also learn how to customize Bootstrap themes through CSS along with some best practices to consider when overriding styles. It also explains in brief how to generate a custom build of bootstrap and use that in our project instead of the entire thing. We get to learn how to use the bootstrap less files in our projects and integrate with our own build system with grunt. We learn how to customize Bootstrap plugins by adding our own styles and by defining our own jQuery plugin. We learn about the bootstrap grid system and third-party plugins and also ways to create our own theme with bootswatch. This book is not intended to be a bootstrap guide. Knowledge of it is essential to fully utilize this book. What this book does is gives you everything that you need in order to become a master at customizing Bootstrap and build awesome projects with it. Get the book here: http://www.packtpub.com/extending-bootstrap/book

About the author

Christoffer Niska is a web developer from Helsinki, Finland. He maintains many open source projects that are mainly extensions of the Yii PHP framework. Christoffer's most notable open source effort is Yiistrap, which is an extension for Yii that allows developers to use Twitter Bootstrap along with Yii in a very convenient way. Christoffer is the CTO at Nord Software Ltd., a company based in Helsinki that delivers cutting-edge web solutions to various clients of all sizes. At work, he helps clients to transform their vision into reality. During his hours off from work, he maintains his open source projects, experiments with web technologies, and makes arcade games using HTML5 and JavaScript. Christoffer's Twitter handle is @Crisu83 and his online portfolio can be found at http://crisu83.me. Extending Bootstrap is his first official attempt at writing and very likely, not the last.