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Quick start

Several quick start options are available:

Read the Getting started page for information on the framework contents, templates and examples, and more.

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What’s included

Within the download you’ll find the following directories and files, logically grouping common assets and providing both compiled and minified variations. You’ll see something like this:

bootstrap/
└── dist/
    ├── css/
    │   ├── bootstrap-grid.css
    │   ├── bootstrap-grid.css.map
    │   ├── bootstrap-grid.min.css
    │   ├── bootstrap-grid.min.css.map
    │   ├── bootstrap-reboot.css
    │   ├── bootstrap-reboot.css.map
    │   ├── bootstrap-reboot.min.css
    │   ├── bootstrap-reboot.min.css.map
    │   ├── bootstrap.css
    │   ├── bootstrap.css.map
    │   ├── bootstrap.min.css
    │   └── bootstrap.min.css.map
    └── js/
        ├── bootstrap.bundle.js
        ├── bootstrap.bundle.js.map
        ├── bootstrap.bundle.min.js
        ├── bootstrap.bundle.min.js.map
        ├── bootstrap.js
        ├── bootstrap.js.map
        ├── bootstrap.min.js
        └── bootstrap.min.js.map

We provide compiled CSS and JS (bootstrap.*), as well as compiled and minified CSS and JS (bootstrap.min.*). source maps (bootstrap.*.map) are available for use with certain browsers’ developer tools. Bundled JS files (bootstrap.bundle.js and minified bootstrap.bundle.min.js) include Popper, but not jQuery.

Bugs and feature requests

Have a bug or a feature request? Please first read the issue guidelines and search for existing and closed issues. If your problem or idea is not addressed yet, please open a new issue.

Documentation

Bootstrap’s documentation, included in this repo in the root directory, is built with Jekyll and publicly hosted on GitHub Pages at https://getbootstrap.com/. The docs may also be run locally.

Documentation search is powered by Algolia’s DocSearch. Working on our search? Be sure to set debug: true in site/docs/4.5/assets/js/src/search.js file.

Running documentation locally

  1. Run through the tooling setup to install Jekyll (the site builder) and other Ruby dependencies with bundle install.
  2. Run npm install to install Node.js dependencies.
  3. Run npm start to compile CSS and JavaScript files, generate our docs, and watch for changes.
  4. Open http://localhost:9001 in your browser, and voilà.

Learn more about using Jekyll by reading its documentation.

Documentation for previous releases

You can find all our previous releases docs on https://getbootstrap.com/docs/versions/.

Previous releases and their documentation are also available for download.

Contributing

Please read through our contributing guidelines. Included are directions for opening issues, coding standards, and notes on development.

Moreover, if your pull request contains JavaScript patches or features, you must include relevant unit tests. All HTML and CSS should conform to the Code Guide, maintained by Mark Otto.

Editor preferences are available in the editor config for easy use in common text editors. Read more and download plugins at https://editorconfig.org/.

Community

Get updates on Bootstrap’s development and chat with the project maintainers and community members.

Versioning

For transparency into our release cycle and in striving to maintain backward compatibility, Bootstrap is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines. Sometimes we screw up, but we adhere to those rules whenever possible.

See the Releases section of our GitHub project for changelogs for each release version of Bootstrap. Release announcement posts on the official Bootstrap blog contain summaries of the most noteworthy changes made in each release.

Creators

Mark Otto

Jacob Thornton

Thanks

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