Summary

In this chapter, we finished our web application example. The main objective here was to learn about the Bootstrap plugins that we had not described before.

First, you learned about data attributes and how to use them with Bootstrap. After that, we saw both the possible ways to call plugins: via pure JavaScript or just through data attributes APIs.

We started and finished plugins with modals. Modals are one of the main plugins in Bootstrap because they are very versatile and customizable. Thus, they are fit for multiple contexts where you need some interaction with the user but do not want to move to another page.

In the middle of the chapter, we talked about two plugins that are closely related. They are the tooltip and the popover. Both came from the same initial plugin but with different contexts. Tooltips are used for auxiliary content, and popovers are something midway between a modal and a tooltip, so they can display more content compared to tooltips, but not too much intrusive like modals.

Creating a web application that is Twitter-like is an important kind of knowledge, since this can be replicated to different sources. Web applications have revolutionized the Web in different ways, and Bootstrap has taken the lead by helping us create faster and more beautiful web pages.

In the next chapter, we will step into an even more challenging example—we will build a dashboard web application from scratch! Just like the web application presented in this chapter, web dashboards are very popular across the Internet, and building one will place us at the same stratum as some of the best web developers. Ready for the advanced level?