Node.js Web Development - Fourth Edition

Setting it up

The first step is to duplicate the code you created in the previous chapter. If, for example, you created a directory named chap05/notes, then create one named chap06/notes from the content of chap05/notes.

Now, we need to go about adding Bootstrap's code in the Notes application. The Bootstrap website suggests loading the required CSS and JavaScript files out of the Bootstrap (and jQuery) public CDN. While that's easy to do, we won't do this for two reasons:

• It violates the principle of keeping all dependencies local to the application and not relying on global dependencies
• It prevents us from generating a custom theme

Instead, we'll install a local copy of Bootstrap. There are several ways to install Bootstrap. For example, ...