Benjamin Jakobus - Mastering Bootstrap 4 - Second Edition: Master the latest version of Bootstrap 4 to build highly customized responsive web apps

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Benjamin Jakobus graduated with a BSc in computer science from University College Cork and obtained an MSc in advanced computing from Imperial College, London. As a software engineer, he has worked on various web development projects across Europe and Brazil.

Jason Marah is VP of engineering at Teckro. Jason is a University College Cork alumnus, graduating with a BSc in computer science. Jason has worked as a full-stack engineer, specializing in JavaScript on various projects around Europe.

Alfonso has strong experience and a wide-ranging knowledge base of web development. He has been working almost 20 years for many company sizes, teams, and industries. He fights for best practices, performance, scalability, and Test Driven Development. Hes currently working as technical lead for Aer Lingus, Ireland.

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Bootstrap is a free CSS and JavaScript framework that allows developers to rapidly build responsive web interfaces. The framework was first conceived by Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton while working at Twitter in 2010. Since its release as an open source project in August of 2011, Bootstrap has become a household name among frontend web developers. The frameworks ease-of-use along with its cross-browser compatibility, support for mobile user interfaces, and responsive web design capabilities, make it an essential building block for any modern web application. Totaling over 600 contributors, and mor e than 34,000 GitHub forks, Bootstrap has become the worlds most popular responsive web development framework. However, despite its popularity, there are relatively few advanced resources on the fourth, and latest, version of Bootstrap. As such, the motivation behind this book is to provide a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for developers that wish to build a complete, production-ready, website using Bootstrap 4. Once you turn the final pages of this book, you should be mastering the frameworks ins and outs, and building highly customizable and optimized web interfaces. You will know how to both extend the framework, integrate it with third-party components and frameworks, as well as optimize and automate your Bootstrapped builds.

This book targets readers who already have an understanding of HTML, JavaScript and CSS, and who wish to learn how to build responsive websites using Bootstrap 4. The book is not intended to be an introduction to web development.

, Revving Up Bootstrap, places the Bootstrap framework into context by highlighting the relevant features that come bundled with it. It briefly deals with various ways to include the framework and concludes by setting up the required files for the books demo project.

, Making a Style Statement, introduces the Bootstrap markup and style rules for the mobile-first grid system and HTML image elements. It also goes into the handy helper classes and responsive utilities that Bootstrap makes available to boost development speed.