Bootstrap 5 Foundations, Daniel Foreman (ISBN 9798749992465, foremanlearning)

Recently I followed a course on Coursera about Front-End Web Development, html and css from Meta. It was a nice refresher but compared to some other courses on similar topics created by universities the course materials are a bit meager: no slides or reading material you can save and easily read again. You have to navigate through the lessons to find back a reading or video. All reference material is from websites. I ended up saving a ton of links but for me personally this is not the best way to review what I learned. Anyway, one topic that was covered a little was Bootstrap. This framework was developed by engineers at Twitter in 2010. The framework contains html, css and javascript. It allows you to create websites easier and faster, focusing on the content, using predefined styles, layouts and scripts for interactivity with responsive mobile-first design built in. Instead of having to write all your css and javascript yourself you can reference to Bootstrap code and create sites immediately. You only need to learn Bootstrap instead. One other main benefit of knowing how to use Bootstrap is that it is widely adopted by many companies so if you are looking for a job as a web developer then you can easily join a team and start creating content. The course didn’t really explain how Bootstrap works and that is why I read this book. It is very brief, not even 150 pages with a lot of code examples that you can read diagonally. They are mainly toy examples to illustrate how the framework works. After reading the book I feel confident that I understand how I can apply Bootstrap to design a webpage that I have in mind. For my purposes it is overkill but I still plan to play around with it to see how easy it is to use and what benefits it can bring in my case.