You're reading from The Missing Bootstrap 5 Guide Customize and extend Bootstrap 5 with Sass and JavaScript to create unique website designs

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801076432

Length 384 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Bootstrap

Concepts

UI Development

Author (1):

Jeppe Schaumburg Jensen

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Part One – Customizing Bootstrap 5 with Sass

2. Chapter 1: Why and How to Customize Bootstrap FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Using and Compiling Sass

4. Chapter 3: Downloading and Exploring the Bootstrap 5 Sass Files

5. Chapter 4: Bootstrap 5 Global Options and Colors

6. Chapter 5: Customizing Various Bootstrap 5 Elements

7. Chapter 6: Understanding and Using the Bootstrap 5 Utility API

8. Part Two – Creating a Unique-Looking Website Based on Bootstrap 5 and Customization

9. Chapter 7: Creating the Website Using Default Bootstrap 5 Elements

10. Chapter 8: Customizing the Website Using Bootstrap 5 Variables, Utility API, and Sass

11. Chapter 9: Improving the Website with Interactive Features Using JavaScript

12. Part Three – Advanced Topics Related to Bootstrap 5

13. Chapter 10: Using Bootstrap 5 with Advanced Sass and CSS Features

14. Chapter 11: Using Bootstrap 5 with Advanced JavaScript Features

15. Chapter 12: Optimizing Bootstrap 5 CSS and JavaScript Code

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

What is Sass?

Sass is an abbreviation of Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets. It is a special kind of stylesheet language known as a preprocessor scripting language that extends the default capabilities of CSS. This enables you to use JavaScript-like logic and features in the code, such as variables, nesting, mixins, inheritance, partials, functions, mathematical operations, and more. All of this helps you write more robust and maintainable code by automating repetitive tasks, reducing the number of errors, creating reusable code snippets, and more. Sass has a syntax similar to CSS, but the Sass files need to be compiled to regular CSS before they can be rendered in browsers. This can be done using different tools, which we will learn more about later in this chapter.

Sass was first released in 2006 and is still being actively supported and developed by a large community. It is by far the most popular and used CSS preprocessor, with Less and Stylus being two other established CSS...