What's New In Bootstrap 5 ?

What's New In Bootstrap 5 alpha?

    Bootstrap doesn't need an introduction it's the most popular front end technology. Bootstrap 5 alpha version released in 2020/06/16 and lots of new things get introduced  . Before we start discussing all changes if you don’t know about the versioning standard let me give you a brief about it. The alpha version means the version still not completed it’s under the development phase just a few functionalities added. Whereas beta version means all development is done with just some changes being done (all those changes more towards code cleaning, performance improvement, etc).

1. JQuery Dependency no longer needed 

If you want to use bootstrap up to its version 4 you must import jquery as a dependency to use all functionality. But now the new version removed the dependency of jquery. because now Bootstrap more focusing on reducing dependency, faster javaScript, etc. which will definitely help to improve loading time.

2. Changes in Documentation

Documentation is really important for any developer to understand the functionality provided by library bootstrap documentation was not bad but they have made it neater, clean more examples, code snippets, and they have used collapsed plugin to improve readability its small change but it will really help to understand certain topics.

3. Quick project start

If you want to save your project setup time you can use the npm command to quick setup projects. this package command will generate all necessary dependencies and files. just one command and you are good to go .

4. Shifted from Jekyll to Hugo 

Well, Jekyll and Hugo is the name of a static file generator framework. Bootstrap's previous version was dependent on Jekyll to generate static files; it was working fine but there were few issues they found over the years. it was kind of slow while generating static files and ruby dependency also was there. but Hugo is designed in Go language and it's faster, no dependency required. 

5. Expanded Color pallet

Bootstrap new version make more color shades available

6. Removed Support for Internet Explorer

I don’t know who uses IE nowadays. but still, the previous version was supportive to IE. but now on bootstrap will not support IE

      7. Change in a Form control

New changes introduced in forms also read the complete document to understand better.

8.Combining Sass and CSS

            New versions will also come with the power of Sass. Which is a great thing I guess because sass is far more powerful than just CSS .

9. Changed Bootstrap Logo

           Well, that’s all the new changes introduced. it's in the alpha phase we cannot expect lots of changes we got to wait until the next release. if you want to read the complete article click here

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