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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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Ian Whitney Ian Whitney
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

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

Customizing Bootstrap's Sass according to our needs


As we work with Bootstrap's Sass files, we'll exert considerable control over them by doing the following:

  • Organizing our scss folder to give us the flexibility and freedom to accomplish what we need while making future maintenance easier

  • Customizing Bootstrap's Sass variables

  • Creating a few custom Sass files of our own

  • Incorporating a set of font-based icons in our site assets, providing the icons that we need for our social media links

In other words, we'll be doing more than merely learning and applying Bootstrap's conventions. We'll be bending them to our will.

In this chapter's exercise files, open the scss directory. Inside, you should see the following structure:

To prepare for what's ahead, I've given you a head start by explaining the new layer of organization. All of Bootstrap's Sass files are saved in the bower_components/bootstrap/scss/ folder. You should not modify these files; you can (re)use them as described in the next sections...

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