WHAT’S NEW IN BOOTSTRAP 5 ?

 WHAT’S  NEW IN BOOTSTRAP 5?

Bootstrap 5 has come with major changes, including the drop for Internet Explorer (IE) support and jQuery dependency. Developed by Twitter, Bootstrap is the world’s most popular CSS framework. The open-source user interface framework is looking at positioning itself for the future, and this has seen it make ground-breaking changes in v5. It allows developers to easily use beautiful styles and components and create responsive websites. Using Bootstrap can save developers time, especially with components that are used in almost every project.

Bootstrap is a free and open-source CSS, JavaScript, and HTML framework for building responsive, mobile-first websites. Web Designing Company in Ghaziabad also uses Bootstrap 5 as it scales websites and apps from mobile phones to tablets to desktops using CSS media queries. The framework is full of powerful features and very well documented. It makes it faster and easier for front-end developers of all levels to build web pages that look great on any kind of device.

Upgrading From Bootstrap 4 to 5

Upgrading from Bootstrap 4 to 5 is generally pretty easy. Most of the components, their classes and utility classes that were available in Bootstrap 4 are still available 5 in Bootstrap. The main thing you should focus on when migrating is whether or not the classes or components you’re using have been dropped. If they’ve been dropped, there are replacements or ways to achieve the same result using utility classes. The second thing you should focus on is switching from data-* attributes to data-bs-* in components that require Javascript as a part of their functionalities. If you use Bootstrap’s Sass files, there are some variables and mixins that have been renamed. Bootstrap 5 has an extensive and detailed section about customization, as well as details about the Sass variables and mixins for each component in their respective documentation pages.

What’s Changed, What’s Been Dropped And What’s New:

Bootstrap 5 brings core changes to Bootstrap as a library, with a change in required dependencies, browser support, and more. It also brings changes to the components and classes that we’ve always used in previous versions.  It scales websites and apps from mobile phones to tablets to desktops using CSS media queries. The framework is full of powerful features and very well documented. It makes it faster and easier for front-end developers of all levels to build web pages that look great on any kind of device. So let’s start uncovering what's changed in Bootstrap 5:-

1.      Drop for jQuery support

One of the biggest news about Bootstrap 5 is that the team has decided to stop supporting the jQuery library and use regular JavaScript instead. The end of jQuery support is meant to reduce the source file size and improve loading times, as well as make V5 more future-ready. Developers will no longer have to download the entire huge library to do things in JS. They are using virtual DOM instead of DOM directly, which increases website performance.

2.      Enhanced JavaScript

While removing jQuery, the Bootstrap 5 creators are making great improvements to the project’s JavaScript. These new features include an update to revamped dropdown, Popper 2, popover, and tooltip placement, the new ability for all plugins to accept a CSS selector as 1st argument, optimizations for easier code sharing across components, and much more.

3.      CSS custom properties

Special attention needs to be paid to the introduction of custom CSS properties in Bootstrap 5, which has become possible due to the end of support for Internet Explorer. V5 ships with CSS variables in a number of various components and layout options as well. Custom properties are meant to make your Cascading Style Sheets more flexible and customizable. To avoid conflict with third-party CSS, the variables now have a -bs prefix.

4.      Improvements to forms

Another new feature in Bootstrap 5 is that its team has revamped the system of form controls and dedicated a prominent section to them in the documentation. In V5, forms are entirely custom, so developers can provide the same look and feel across all browsers. It makes forms easier to work with and more uniform across various browsers.

Improvements to Bootstrap 5 forms also include a simplified form layout, the new form file made completely in CSS, and the support for floating labels for text input, text areas, and selects.

5.      RTL support

Bootstrap 5 has finally introduced RTL support for languages that read from right to left. This includes RTL versions for the CSS dist file, complete documentation, and examples. To provide RTL support, the V5 team has been relying on the RTLCSS framework for converting LTR Cascading Style Sheets to RTL. The RTL support is a huge accessibility improvement in Bootstrap 5 that eliminates the need for extra hard work that developers had to do when needed RTL on their websites.

 

6.      Great changes in utilities

The Bootstrap team has added new utilities to the framework. They are related to positioning, grid layouts, font size, font weight, border-radius, and more. There is also now a brand-new utility API for extending the default utility classes. It makes utilities easy to generate and customize.

As part of RTL support, Bootstrap 5 has logical properties for spacing utilities. For this purpose, several variables and classes have been renamed. The concept of logical properties was partly implemented in V4 and might be known to many developers thanks to so-called flex utilities. They replace direction-based properties (start and end instead of left and right).

 

7.      Well-documented and improved customizing options

It is now easier than ever before to theme, customize, and extend Bootstrap. The Bootstrap 5 team has added a customization section to documentation that makes things clearer and removes possible ambiguities. It has explanations, ready-to-go code snippets, and a starter npm project to get developers covered. It explains how to use the source Sass files (with their variables, maps, functions, and mixins), reusable components, a new extended color palette with improved contrasts and better accessibility, and more.

8.      New off-canvas component

Among the new features of Bootstrap 5 is also the new off-canvas component that includes a configurable backdrop, body scroll, and placement. The new element includes Bootstrap chevron icons to show the clickability and state. Developers can position this type of component at the top, bottom, left, or right of the viewport.

9.      New accordion component

There is also a new accordion component in Bootstrap 5 to replace the .card accordion component. The new one is easier to work with because it uses custom HTML and CSS to support the Collapse JavaScript plugin.

10.  Updated logo

One of the small but nice improvements in Bootstrap 5 is its new logo with elements resembling CSS’s curly braces, as well as the well-known B icon. The design of the documentation section has been changed accordingly.

Build your outstanding responsive web pages!

The new features in Bootstrap 5 just prove one more time that it has everything for the fast and efficient development of web pages that provide the best user experiences across devices. With all the new updates coming in Bootstrap 5, it’s safe to say that the Bootstrap team is making huge steps to make the framework lightweight, simple, useful and faster for the developer’s benefit. However, even the best-documented component-based framework works much better in experienced hands — so you are welcome to reach out to our development team at any moment. Let’s stay in touch!