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Modern JavaScript Applications

You're reading from   Modern JavaScript Applications Keep abreast of the practical uses of modern JavaScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881442
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Narayan Prusty Narayan Prusty
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Breaking into Microservices Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a Coupon Site 3. Communication between Browsers in Real Time 4. Building a Chatroulette 5. Bidirectional Communication in Real Time 6. Building a Live Score Site 7. Functional Reactive Programming 8. Building an Advanced Profile Search Widget 9. New Features of Bootstrap 4 10. Building User Interfaces Using React 11. Building an RSS Reader Using React and Flux 12. New Features of Angular 2 13. Building a Search Engine Template Using AngularJS 2 14. Securing and Scaling Node.js Applications Index

The grid system


The only change made in the Bootstrap 4 grid system is that a new extra-large breakpoint has been added. The class prefix for this breakpoint is .col-xl-. Here are the Bootstrap 4 grid breakpoints after this new addition:

The .col-xl- breakpoint targets screen sizes of 1200px or larger, which was targeted by .col-lg- in Bootstrap 3. Therefore, this makes other breakpoints compress to target smaller screen sizes than they used to in Bootstrap 3. Here, you can see that .col-xs- now targets a screen width of less than 544px instead of the 768px it did in Bootstrap 3, making it easier to target mobile devices and have different layouts for tablets and mobile devices, which was lacking in Bootstrap 3.

While Bootstrap uses em or rem for defining most sizes, px is used for grid breakpoints and container widths. This is because viewport width is in pixels and does not change with font size.

Here is an example of the new grid system. Place this code in the <body> tag of the index...

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