3+ Ways to Add Bootstrap 4 to Angular 10/9

Throughout this tutorial, we’ll learn how to use bootstrap 4 with Angular 10 (and any previous versions such as Angular 9) to make your Angular app responsive.

We’ll learn how to install (and uninstall) bootstrap in Angular from npm, cdn or using the ng add schematic, and add bootstrap to the styles/scripts arrays of the angular.json file. Next, we’ll learn how to build user interfaces with various components such as navigation bars, grid, date and time pickers, tooltips, carousels, modals, tabs, dropdowns, and forms.

We’ll also see the advantages of Angular implementations for Bootstrap — ng-bootstrap vs ngx-bootstrap vs mdbootstrap. And see some popular Angular Bootstrap templates that you can use with Angular to quickly create your layouts.

3+ Ways to Add Bootstrap 4 to Angular

In this section, we will see ways to integrate Angular and Bootstrap to style apps built.

We’ll see how to integrate Angular with Bootstrap, in various ways including using ng-bootstrap and ngx-bootstrap packages.

We’ll be using Angular CLI 10 for generating a brand new project.

These are the steps of our tutorial:

Step 1 — Installing Angular CLI v10
Step 2 — Installing Bootstrap 4 in Your Angular 10 Project
Step 3 (Method 1) — Adding Bootstrap 4 to Angular 10 Usingangular.json
Step 3 (Method 2) — Adding Bootstrap 4 to Angular 10 Usingindex.html
Step 3 (Method 3) — Adding Bootstrap 4 to Angular 10 Using
Alternative Step — Adding Bootstrap 4 Using ng-bootstrap and ngx-bootstrap

Note: You can also use Ionic UI components to create beautiful and professional Angular apps, read Building Chat App Frontend UI with JWT Auth Using Ionic 5/Angular 10

What is Bootstrap

Bootstrap is the most popular HTML and CSS framework for building responsive layouts with ease and without having a deep knowledge of CSS (Still custom CSS is required to customize your design and make it different from the other Bootstrap-styled websites unless you are using a BS theme developed specifically for your requirements.

Bootstrap 4 is the latest version of Bootstrap which brings many new and powerful features to the framework most importantly Flexbox which is now the default display system for the Bootstrap grid layout (one of the most important features of Bootstrap).

3+ Ways to Include Bootstrap 4 In Your Angular Project

You can include Bootstrap in your Angular project in multiple ways:

Including the Bootstrap CSS and JavaScript files in the <head> section of the index.html file of your Angular project with a <link> and <script> tags,
Importing the Bootstrap CSS file in the global styles.css file of your Angular project with an @import keyword.
Adding the Bootstrap CSS and JavaScript files in the styles and scripts arrays of the angular.json file of your project

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