Webstrap

This repo is a basic project using Webpack 4 to compile Bootstrap 4 enabled layouts (CSS and JavaScript wise). It loads all the necessary dependencies and has a simple configuration to enable or disable Bootstrap 4 styles or scripts in a per component basis.

Installation

Install with npm:

npm install --save-dev webstraper

Install with yarn:

yarn add webstraper --dev

Technology used

Webpack 4
Babel 6
Bootstrap 4
Sass (via *.scss)
ES6 (via Babel transpilation)

Directory structure

<path to this project>
├── dist (not present until compilation)
│   ├── js
│   │   └── app.js
│   └── css
│       └── app.css
├── node_modules (not present until `npm install` or `yarn`)
├── src
│   ├── js (you can add more `*.js` files and/or folder here) 
│   │   └── app.js
│   └── scss (you can add more `*.scss` files and/or folder here)
│       ├── _variables.scss
│       └── app.scss 
├── .bootstraprc (configuration used by bootstrap-loader)
├── .gitignore 
├── package.json 
├── postcss.config.js (if you're willing to use postcss after bootstrap uses it)
├── readme.md
├── webpack.config.js 
└── yarn.lock (contains the exact versions of modules used on this project)

Note A) Vue.js is not set to compile here and though it could be done as well (make a PR if you really need this), we advise using the vue-cli to create a Vue.js Webpack full template as it has all those things (apart from integration with Bootstrap)

Note B) You can use ES6 in your JavaScript files as we set up Webpack to use Babel to compile you ES6 code into ES5 compatible JavaScript. You can also add more presets through the file .babelrc)

Commands

For a starting point, we only add three simple commands, as stated below:

npm run build or yarn run build - this one compiles your source code for development purposes (no minification, space or comments removal, etc)
npm run watch or yarn run watch - this one allows automatic recompilation of your source code to have a faster development workflow
npm run prod or yarn run prod - this one compiles your source code for production (space removal, minification, etc)

Note: You can add more commands by adding extra entries into the scripts attribute of your package.json file)

Development

When developing CSS rules, the best option is to use Bootstrap's mixins to create semantic classes for your project. This way, instead of using thousands of class names in your HTML, you'd go for only one, having a more concise HTML and CSS for the project (as you would not have all the Bootstrap CSS loaded in your final CSS file).

For a more in-depth usage of Bootstrap's mixins, please, visit their documentation website for each component or layout structure you want to use.

Example code

The following code example...

.main-content {
  @include make-container();
}

...would compile into:

.main-content {
  width: 100%;
  padding-right: 15px;
  padding-left: 15px;
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: auto;
}

Thus, one would not need to use the class .container on the page.

This is a simplistic example. However, when you have a HTML element div.col-3.col-lg-4 to be your aside column, you could make a semantic class .aside that behaves exactly the mix of .col-3 and .col-lg-4. To do so, you'd do as the following code example:

.aside {
  @include make-col-ready();
  @include media-breakpoint-up(sm) {
    @include make-col(3)
  }
  @include media-breakpoint-up(lg) {
    @include make-col(4)
  }
}

Which, in turn, would generate the following CSS in dist/css/app.css:

.aside {
  position: relative;
  width: 100%;
  min-height: 1px;
  padding-right: 15px;
  padding-left: 15px;
}

@media (min-width: 576px) {
  .aside {
    flex: 0 0 25%;
    max-width: 25%;
  }
}

@media (min-width: 992px) {
  .aside {
    flex: 0 0 33.33333%;
    max-width: 33.33333%;
  }
}