What is BootStrap?

Hey, my name's Dan, and in this video we're gonna look at,  uh, what Bootstrap is now, uh, bootstrap is super important  to know because it's, uh, it's  how responsiveness is done through websites. Now, there are lots of different ways  of doing responsive websites,  but Bootstrap is definitely the most popular at the moment. And if you want to be a web designer, uh, you really need  to understand and probably use  Bootstrap even if you don't use it. You need to really understand what it is, um,  because you're gonna have clients coming in  and using the word throwing it around. So, uh, we also need to know it because Dreamweaver uses it. Okay?

You used to use something else called Fluid Layouts,  but now it uses Bootstraps. So it's kind of what we need to learn. And when we're using Dreamweaver, uh, it came not  that long ago, it feels, I was kind of researching it,  thinking, ah, you know, I'll check, uh,  give them some factoids about how old Bootstrap is. And it turns out it's only like a few years old. It was kind of 2011, um, when it was kind of released,  and it's gone through a couple of versions since then. But it feels like the word bootstrap,  or at least Twitter bootstrap is the old word for it.

It's been around for ages,  but it actually is only a few years. So, um, it was made by just a couple of guys there,  a developer and a designer kind of trying  to make things quite simple for responsive. Now, what is Bootstrap? Think of it. It's, it's called a framework. And think of it as a template.

Somebody else has gone out there  and created a whole bunch of things that we can use  and style and build on top of,  but they've done all the hard work,  they've done the browser testing, the uh, uh,  the bug fixing, the, what happens in this browser,  what happens, the screen size. All those sorts of things have been worked out  by somebody else, which is brilliant for us. Um, and they're kind of like two main parts to Bootstrap. Okay? There's something called components which are  pre-made, uh, which are just pre-made bits of code  that we can kind of dump on our page and use and style. And then there's something called the grid,  which is essentially is just the kind of like foundation  or the kind of like, uh, base of all the websites.

But let's talk about those in two separate parts.