Preface

Since its debut in August 2011, Twitter Bootstrap, now simply Bootstrap, has become by far the most popular framework for empowering and enhancing frontend web design.

With over 5 years of experience with Bootstrap, I'm happy to write this book for you and share my experience with you. Since Bootstrap helps me to implement best practices for both CSS and HTML. Bootstrap enables me to work faster and deliver stable results. Bootstrap definitely made me a better web developer.

With version 4, Bootstrap reaches an exciting new milestone, a lean code base optimized for modern browsers. Bootstrap enables you to build applications and websites that look good and work well on all types of devices and screen sizes from a single code base.

Bootstrap is open source and released under the MIT license. It's hosted, developed, and maintained on GitHub.

This book is a hands-on guide to the inner workings of Bootstrap. In an easy-to-follow, step-by-step format, you'll experience the power of customizing and recompiling Bootstrap's Sass files and adapting Bootstrap's JavaScript plugins to design professional user interfaces.

At the end of the day, this book is about something bigger than Bootstrap. Bootstrap is but a tool—a means to an end. By the end of this book, you will become a more adept and efficient web designer.