The Missing Bootstrap 5 Guide : Customize and extend Bootstrap 5 with Sass and JavaScript to create unique website designs

Make your website stand out by unlocking the full potential of Bootstrap 5 and creating efficient UIs

Key Features

• Find out how to customize all parts of Bootstrap 5 with Sass, including working with the utility API
• Create a unique website using only Bootstrap 5 with Sass customization and interactive features
• Grasp advanced Bootstrap 5 topics related to Sass, CSS, JavaScript, and source code optimization

Book Description

Bootstrap is one of the world's most popular and easy-to-use frontend UI toolkits for building responsive websites, but few know how to get the most out of its vast range of components, utilities, JavaScript plugins, and other features. The Missing Bootstrap 5 Guide will help you customize Bootstrap 5 with Sass to achieve a layout that stands out from the crowd, enabling you to create something unique that doesn't look like it was created with Bootstrap.

With this practical guide to Bootstrap customization, developers working with Bootstrap will be able to utilize powerful customization techniques to create websites with unique designs and exclusive features. You'll see how you can develop a visually appealing website quickly and easily by taking a hands-on approach to customizing your website using advanced features of CSS, Sass, and JavaScript. Starting with learning how the Bootstrap 5 visual style is created with Sass, you'll find out how to customize it to fit your needs while achieving the website look you want. You'll then use this knowledge to create a website using most of Bootstrap 5's components and customization with Sass and JavaScript. Finally, you'll explore various advanced Bootstrap 5 topics related to Sass, CSS, JavaScript, and source code optimization.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to design and build modern, captivating, and unique websites on your own using the immense capabilities of Bootstrap 5.

What you will learn

• Identify the most important Sass features for using Bootstrap 5
• Understand the structure and content of Sass code used in Bootstrap 5
• Explore customization options, colors, layout, content, forms, components, helpers, and utilities
• Find out how to customize, extend, and improve a website to make it unique
• Discover different ways of using the CSS custom properties of Bootstrap 5
• Get to grips with Bootstrap 5 source code optimization

Who this book is for

This book is for UI designers and developers who are familiar with HTML and have prior experience with Bootstrap. Frontend as well as backend developers using Bootstrap, who don't know how to code CSS but have a solid grasp on HTML, will also find this book useful. Experienced users of the default Bootstrap files can use this book to learn all about customization and other advanced features.

Table of Contents

1. Why and How to Customize Bootstrap
2. Using and Compiling Sass
3. Downloading and Exploring the Bootstrap 5 Sass Files
4. Bootstrap 5 Global Options and Colors
5. Customizing Various Bootstrap 5 Elements
6. Understanding and Using the Bootstrap 5 Utility API
7. Creating the Website Using Default Bootstrap 5 Elements
8. Customizing the Website Using Bootstrap 5 Variables, Utility API and Sass
9. Improving the Website with Interactive Features Using JavaScript
10. Using Bootstrap 5 with Advanced Sass and CSS Features
11. Using Bootstrap 5 with Advanced JavaScript Features
12. Optimizing the Compiled Bootstrap 5 CSS and JavaScript Code