Bootstrap Overview

What is Bootstrap?

  • Front-end framework created by engineers at Twitter

  • Initially created to address the issue of having inconsistent user interfaces across their internal web applications

  • Has since become the most popular mobile first (responsive) framework on the web

  • Collection of html, css, js and fonts

  • Documentation can be found here


Benefits of Bootstrap

  • Fully responsive out of the box

  • Consistent design

  • Easy to use

  • Compatible with browsers

  • Open Source


Installing Bootstrap

  • Similar to jquery, there are multiple ways to install bootstrap into your applications:

    • download the bootstrap files and store them within your project

    • Use a CDN (content delivery network)

We’ll use the downloaded files options, more information on installing bootstrap can be found here