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Introduction - Bootstrap Tutorial
From the course: Bootstrap 4 Essential Training
Introduction
- The very fast thing you'll want to do is get the framework installed. There's a ton of ways to install this framework, but for most simple projects, you'll end up either using a content delivery network, often shortened to CDN, or the preprocessed Bootstrap CSS and JavaScript files. Now, CDN has the advantage of speed. Once a user has visited a website that uses a CDN, the Bootstrap code gets saved to a place in memory called a cache. That means that the next website using the same CDN won't have to download the code. The advantage of using a preprocessed file is the ability to work offline. A CDN requires that you work online and, for development purposes, might not always be possible. So, if you're going to be developing offline, stick with preprocessed files. For this course, I'm going to keep things simple and only talk about these two options, but there are many other ways of running Bootstrap. For example, you can use Sass to customize your installation and perform installs…
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