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Installation options

Installation options - Bootstrap Tutorial

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Installation options

- [Instructor] This version of bootstrap has a lot of different installation options. So let's take a quick look at what we have available. Now you can install bootstrap in one of four ways. The first way is to simply download the pre-compiled bootstrap CSS and JavaScript files. That works really well if you need to install a copy of bootstrap that will work even without an internet connection. Another way is to use CDNs. A CDN is a content delivery network, which means a place that hosts common libraries like bootstrap. When someone visits a site that uses a CDN link, their browser will check its cache or memory to see if the visitor has been to a similar site that's also using the same link. If that's the case, then the browser will load the cached version of the library. Since it's already stored in memory, that makes the new site load faster since the browser will not have to request a file. You can also download…

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