Let’s talk about bootstrap components. Bootstrap is an open-sourced framework for web apps development that has gained great popularity since 2011 when it was released for the first time. Since that time Bootstrap has expanded, evolved, become more and more popular, and gained the support of a large community of developers.
The latest Bootstrap version is 4.5.2, and we expect to see version 5 soon. As Bootstrap improves, it can offer more and more components with comprehensive documentation.
You can find alerts, forms, input groups, dropdowns, and much more on the official web site.
These components are free to use, go with Bootstrap toolkit, fully responsive, some of them come with JS files, and they are completely reusable without any necessity in coding.
However, if base bootstrap components don’t fit your design or your app requires specific components that base toolkit doesn’t contain, you face the need to modify base components or to develop them from scratch. It’s can be hard and time-consuming, so we are here to help.
In that article, we consider the most essential bootstrap components that were customized by other developers for different purposes. We show not the complete list of customized components because it would have taken a long series of articles to describe them all since the same components vary in different templates, UI toolkits, and starter kits. We offer you great and well-coded bootstrap-based samples of the most-used components that we believe are noteworthy.
Enjoy reading!
Base components from bootstrap
First of all, let’s examine the list of our essential components itself and how they look like in bootstrap toolkit (once again, link to documentation of the latest bootstrap is here:
- Buttons. Have you ever seen the app without buttons? This is the fundamental UI element if you are not going just to display your users an app with only one page. Of course, you can use clickable icons, swipe for mobiles, or even trending voice control for apps, but it’s hard to imagine a no-buttons app.
- Alerts. Another crucial to provide contextual feedback to users. If a user performs any action, it’s supposed that the app notices the user about what he has done – here alerts go.
- Navbar. If you want to allow users to navigate through your app you probably need the navbar. The navigation bar should be clear, simple, and legible. It’s another very significant UI element.
- Forms and input groups. You can use it if you need to provide an opportunity to register, fill in the feedback form, leave a review, leave your personal information in orders, write a comment, place a checkbox, so on and so forth. In general, every time user is supposed to provide any type of information here goes forms and input groups.
- Jumbotron. A component for calling extra attention to a certain piece of information. People’s attention is limited and they use apps for specific purposes while sometimes we need to share information that can be useful to users despite the fact whether ask users that information or not. We want to be sure that users will see it, and jumbotron helps here. But don’t misuse this instrument for advertisement because if it’s unwanted and intrusive you risk losing users.
- Tabs. A useful component to manage content and space of the app. Add some animation to show and hide elements, make it smooth and your users will be grateful that they don’t need to scroll through the whole page to get a new piece of information.
- Carousel. A component for cycling through a series of images, text. Surely the carousel must be auto-rotating.
- Social buttons. It’s a questionable component, but we still decide to include it in the list of essential elements for apps. The reason is simple: social media are extremely popular today and are being integrated into many apps with such functionality like social login, share via social media, or get in touch with someone with the help of a chosen social messenger. You may consider this component not essential for the development of the application, but it’s definitely one of the most used ones.
Once again, you can find the description with examples of the code of every component in the official bootstrap documentation. And now, when we looked through the list of the most essential components for every web app that an official bootstrap toolkit offers, it’s time to see how these components can be customized.
Customized essential bootstrap-based components
1) Buttons
Buttons from UI Kit “Material design for bootstrap 4”
Here you can find fancy buttons based on material design principles. This component is a part of a quite popular UI KIT that is available in jQuery, Angular, React, and Vue versions. The KIT is free to use, but there is also a premium version that offers more styles for buttons, using gradient colors.
You can see the component here.
2) Alerts
Alerts from Sing Html5
Provide users with bright alert messages from Sing admin dashboard template. Alerts have additional buttons on it you can customize to your need. The template offers transparent, rounded alerts and specific alerts that contain additional HTML elements like dividers.
You can download the component with the template here.
3) Navbar
Navbar from Material Kit
Simple and beautiful navbar that was painted using vibrant and vivid colors. It is a part of UI kit, that can offer a lot of other components. You can see the component here.
4) Forms and input groups
Bootstrap select
Nice looking jQuery based plugin that combines all possible functions to select something: multiselection, live search, search by keywords. The plugin also offers several inbuilt classes to customize input fields.
You can download it here.
Bootstrap Fileinput
From our point of view, this is the most multifunctional and featured component for file input that we found on the Internet. It supports preview of numerous file types like text, Html, videos, etc. You can delete files, change their positions in initial preview, set maximum file upload size, and much more. Since it offers comprehensive documentation with examples for every possible function it doesn’t take much time to customize the component.
You can download the component here.
Input groups from Light blue
Light blue is a premium template that can offer awesome and stylish form elements where you can prepend and append text or buttons to the input fields.
You can download it here.
5) Jumbotron
Jumbotron from Anchor UI Kit
You can find a nice-looking jumbotron in the component of Anchor UI Kit. You can use either standard simple jumbotron or a jumbotron with a background image. You can download UI kit here.
6) Nav tabs and pills
Navigation tabs from Miri UI
To download use the link.
7) Carousel
Carousel from Bootstrap Vue
Bootstrap vue contains plugins, custom components, icons build on top of Bootstrap and Vue.js. One of the most fascinating UI element in there is a carousel. Along with sizing, setting the interval between slides, controls, and indicators that component can give you additional tools such as crossfade animation, touch swipe support, and placing content inside the sliders.
You can download it here.
8) Social buttons
Social Buttons for Bootstrap
With Social Sign-In Buttons you get strict and minimalistic buttons without excessive animation or unnecessary hover effects.
To download the component go here.
Fancy Flat Social Button Animation by Colorlib
This component fully corresponds to its name. The specific animation upon hovering when the icon turns from a square into a circle looks fascinating.
To use this free component go here.
That’s all.
Thanks for reading.
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