![]() The carousel bootstrap component that comes with the bootstrap grid framework is a lightweight carousel which uses JavaScript. It comes with a wide range of modular HTML and CSS components that makes it quick and easy to set up complex high quality websites quickly, and without ‘rebuilding the wheel’ each time. Bootstrap 5 is a framework for frontend web development that prioritizes mobile-first, responsive themes. Take a look at the code below, which shows how we can use the Navbar component and React state to store the toggle data: export default class Example extends React. To make the NavBar responsive, we can include a inside our component and then wrap into a component. A Navbar can have subcomponents like NavbarBrand, Nav, NavItem, etc. ![]() Reactstrap Navbars are responsive navigation bar components. Covering them all is beyond the scope of this tutorial, but let’s try a few important components and use them in an actual project - say, a contact list app. Now that we have reactstrap at our fingertips, there are tons of Bootstrap 4 components that we can use with React. The rest of this tutorial will focus on reactstrap, because it’s the only popular module that uses the latest version of Bootstrap. There are a few other libraries like React-UI, and domain-specific modules like React-bootstrap-table and CoreUI-React Admin Panel on GitHub, which provide extended support for creating awesome UIs using React. It’s also in active development and it’s a nice alternative for building React-powered Bootstrap apps. The module includes components for typography, icons, forms, buttons, tables, layout grids, and navigation. Unlike React-Bootstrap, reactstrap is built for the latest version of Bootstrap. Reactstrap is another library that gives us the ability to use Bootstrap components in React. It’s in active development and the API might break when a newer version is released. However, at the time of writing this tutorial, it targets Bootstrap v3 and not the latest version of Bootstrap. React-Bootstrap is by far one of the most popular libraries for adding Bootstrap components into React. I’ve compiled a list of a few popular Bootstrap modules that we can use with our React projects. There are a few libraries that try to create a React-specific implementation of Bootstrap so that we can use JSX components while working with Bootstrap styles. ![]() Let’s take a look at some of them.Īn Overview of Third-party Libraries for React and Bootstrap Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could import Bootstrap as React components to make the most out of React? For instance, imagine if we could use a combination of Grid, Row and Column components to organize the page instead of the pesky HTML classes: įortunately, we don’t have to implement our own library to serve this purpose, as there are some popular solutions already available. Apart from being unable to toggle navigation links, we can’t use features like dropdown menus, closable alerts and modal windows, to name a few. That’s because the NavBar depends on the Collapse jQuery plugin, which we haven’t imported. Let’s head over to the Bootstrap demo site and copy over some random example code, just to check everything is working as it should:Īs we can see, the form looks good, but the NavBar doesn’t. Once we add the Bootstrap stylesheet to a React project, we can use the regular Bootstrap classes inside JSX code. Let’s have a look at what works and what doesn’t with this setup. Next, we create a new directory for css inside public/, paste in our newly created css directory, and link it from public/index.html: Īlternatively, we can use a CDN to fetch the minified CSS: ![]() For projects that just need the grid, there is a grid-specific stylesheet included too. We’ll just copy the CSS and place it inside the public/ directory. The package includes both the compiled and minified versions of the CSS and JavaScript. Next, let’s download the latest version of the Bootstrap library from Bootstrap’s official site. Here’s the directory structure created by Create React App. We install Create React App and run the following command to start a new project and serve the development build: $ create-react-app react-and-bootstrap Let’s use the Create React App CLI to create a React project, which requires zero configuration to get started. Setting up a Bootstrap Stylesheet with React
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