Extending Bootstrap is a practical guide to extending the use of Bootstrap, a very popular open source CSS framework originally developed by Twitter. This book focuses on different techniques to customize and extend Bootstrap according to your needs. We will cover theming, CSS customization, LESS usage, compiling your styles with Grunt.js, and much more. After reading this book, you will be an expert in Bootstrap and have all the knowledge you need to use it efficiently in your projects.
Chapter 1, Getting Started with Bootstrap, helps you understand why you should use Twitter Bootstrap in the first place.
Chapter 2, Applying a Custom Theme, shows you how to create your first Bootstrap project and apply a Bootswatch theme to it.
Chapter 3, Creating Your Own Build, uses the customize tool from the Bootstrap site to create your own build of Bootstrap.
Chapter 4, LESS is More, provides an introduction to LESS, a preprocessed style sheet language that changes the way you work.
Chapter 5, Compiling Your Styles with Grunt, uses Grunt.js to compile your styles and improve your efficiency.
Chapter 6, Adapting Bootstrap JavaScript Plugins, shows you how to customize and extend Bootstrap JavaScript plugins to do more.
Chapter 7, Custom Grids, teaches you how to customize the grid in Bootstrap.
Chapter 8, Custom Bootstrap Plugins, introduces you to many useful plugins that you can use with Bootstrap.
Chapter 9, Creating Your Own Theme, teaches you how to create your own theme using Bootswatch.