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Introduction to Bootstrap | A front-end web development framework

What is Bootstrap?

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  • Bootstrap is a free front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
  • Bootstrap includes HTML and CSS based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, tables, navigation, modals, image carousels and many other, as well as optional JavaScript plugins.
  • Bootstrap also gives you the ability to easily create responsive designs.

Why Use Bootstrap 4?

Advantages of Bootstrap 4:

  • Easy to use: Anybody with just basic knowledge of HTML and CSS can start using Bootstrap 4
  • Responsive features: Bootstrap's responsive CSS adjusts to phones, tablets, and desktops
  • Mobile-first approach: In Bootstrap 4, mobile-first styles are part of the core framework
  • Browser compatibility: Bootstrap 4 is compatible with all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 10+, Safari, and Opera)

How to use Bootstrap 4?

Bootstrap is an open source toolkit for developing with HTML, CSS, and JS which means its free to use and edit the source code of the project which is hosted on github.com. Also, Bootstrap uses popular JavaScript framework jQuery.

Remember that there will be separate tutorials on 'git' and 'github'.

For now no need to discuss source-code. Let's focus on using it. You can use it with the cached version or with compiled version. 
  1.  Cached version: To use cached version just insert the following code inside the <head> tag of your HTML document.
  2.  Compiled version: Download compiled version from the official website. If you are using compiled version use the following code to include CDN version of jQuery and Popper.js
After you download the precompiled version just extract it and the components will be as follows:

 Give it a try with your web page. The following snippet is the HTML code for the first 'Hello World' page.

Conclusion:

That's it for this blog. Hope you gained something! In this blog, we discussed how to implement the Bootstrap in your project. There are other ways of installing it using package managers like npm, RubyGems, NuGet, etc. But, why choose such a process while we can save time in doing the simplest process.

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