Getting ready

This recipe will show you how to create a simple layout in Bootstrap 4 using Jekyll. The recipe deals with the whole setup, that is, creation of folders, running commands via console, and adding partial files in Jekyll. Thus, this recipe deals with a lot of other tasks than just working with Bootstrap 4. The result of this recipe is a working Jekyll blog, running on Bootstrap 4 and Sass.

Before we begin, we need to install Bootstrap 4 (via Bower), as well as having Ruby and Jekyll installed on our machine.

To install Bootstrap, we'll simply run the following command inside our chapter10/start folder:

bower install bootstrap#v4.0.0-alpha.6

To check if you have Ruby and Jekyll installed, run the following command in your console: ...

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