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Bootstrap 4 Site Blueprints

You're reading from   Bootstrap 4 Site Blueprints Design mobile-first responsive websites with Bootstrap 4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889653
Length 404 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Bootstrap 2. Creating Your Own Build Process with Gulp FREE CHAPTER 3. Customizing Your Blog with Bootstrap and Sass 4. Bootstrappin' a WordPress Theme 5. Bootstrappin' Your Portfolio 6. Bootstrappin' Business 7. Bootstrappin' E-Commerce 8. Bootstrappin' a One-Page Marketing Website 9. Building an Angular 2 App with Bootstrap

Installing Bootstrap via Bower


Bower is a package management system for client-side programming. You can use Bower to install Bootstrap's source code and keep it up to date more easily. Initiate Bower by running the following command in your console:

bower init

Answer the questions like those shown in the following screenshot:

After the preceding steps, a bower.json file is created. Then run the following command in your console:

bower install bootstrap#4 --save-dev

The preceding command downloads Bootstrap to the bower_components folder. Notice that jQuery and Tether are also installed since Bootstrap depends on these libraries.

The --save-dev flag writes down Bootstrap as a devDependency into the bower.json file.

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