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MEAN Cookbook

You're reading from MEAN Cookbook The meanest set of MEAN stack solutions around

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787286573

Length 450 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Angular

Concepts

Full Stack Web Development

Author (1):

McClay

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Working with Angular 4 FREE CHAPTER

2. Enhancing Your User Interface

3. Working with Data

4. Using Express Web Server

5. REST APIs and Authentication

6. Cloud Service Integrations

7. MongoDB and Mongoose

8. Relationships

9. Build Systems and Optimizations

10. Debugging

11. Automated Testing

12. Whats new in Angular 4

Working with Bootstrap in Sass

In this section, we will discuss how to import CSS frameworks and utilities into our application to set up a basic, responsive layout in our Angular application using Bootstrap. Bootstrap is a very popular CSS framework developed by Twitter for responsive web design that works on a wide range of devices, from desktop computers to mobile phones. The latest version of Bootstrap 4 includes many improvements, including switching from Less to Sass for its source files, a new flex-box-based grid system, and many optimizations and performance tweaks to better support mobile devices.

How to do it...

Our Angular application may be modern on the inside, but its user interface is very retro looking, without a modern CSS framework to go with it. Let's install Bootstrap to give our application some nice default styling:

To get started with Bootstrap in our Angular project, we will first have to install it as a dependency:

npm install [email protected] --save

Once we have...

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Authors (1)

McClay

McClay

Nicholas McClay is a software developer and designer with over a decade of JavaScript experience in both corporate and startup technology companies. He is an avid Node.js and JavaScript enthusiast and the founder of the greater Pittsburgh regions Node.js and Angular meetups. A self-described user experience developer, he balances using both design and development disciplines to solve problems. He is a graduate of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where he acquired a bachelor's of science degree in Game Art and Design, a passion that springboarded him into a career of interactive experience design. His previous work experience includes Autodesk, where he worked on next-generation integrated cloud services. His current role is as the UX Lead of Wombat Security Technologies, where he helps bridge the gap between the customers' user experience and the underlying technology and product decisions that deliver it. He enjoys video games, tinkering and creating things, and lives with his loving wife, son, and daughter in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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