Bootstrap v5 will drop requirement for jQuery, drop IE10 and maybe drop IE11 support
The Bootstrap is working on the Bootstrap v5 release, and the team recently committed changes to drop support for at least IE10 (and possibly IE11). Judging by pull requests, their plan to drop the requirement to use jQuery has been a long time coming. On the one hand it is heart-warming to see Internet Explorer finally be dropped from support, and on the other hand we recognize the necessity of letting go of tools that have outlived their usefulness. Finally we'll note that the predicted release date for Bootstrap v5 is "late spring 2020".
How to build scrollable dropdown menu in Bootstrap v4 when it must hold dozens of choices
The Bootstrap dropdown component is very easy to use, but doesn't work so well when it must contain a lot of content. In my case the dropdown contained the Table of Contents for a book with lots of ToC entries, and it didn't even fit well on a large screen. On a small screen for a mobile device, it shrank into unusableness, and Google recently lodged a usability complaint against the site. After researching a ton of alternative designs, a simple solution appeared.
Project setup for Node.js 14, Express, Bootstrap v5, Socket.IO application
In this project we'll create a small TODO application using Node.js 14.x, the latest version of Express, Bootstrap v5, Bootstrap Icons, Sequelize for the database, and Socket.IO for multi-user real time interaction. In this posting we'll initialize the project directory, and put together the initial code.
Running the TODO application
In this article series we've developed a Todo application using Node.js 14.x, Express, Bootstrap v5, Socket.IO, and using Sequelize for the database layer. It was developed to explore some of the new features in Node.js, and to explore the post-jQuery world that Bootstrap v5 offers.
Single page multi-user application with Express, Bootstrap v5, Socket.IO, Sequelize
The Node.js world changed a lot this year with the Node.js 14 release, and its support for ES6 modules, async/await functions, and top-level async code. Another important change was the Bootstrap project which is preparing version 5 where the leading feature is to drop jQuery. These and other changes have come, and are coming, to application developers. This creates a good opportunity to revisit building web applications using Node.js, exploring not only the new features in Node.js but life with Bootstrap without relying on the jQuery crutch. To that end, let's write a little TODO application using Node.js 14, Express, Bootstrap 5, Sequelize, and Socket.IO.
Using Bootstrap and Socket.IO for the user interface in an Express Node.js 14 application
The Bootstrap project has released the first Alpha for Bootstrap v5. It contains a number of major changes, such as dropping the requirement to use jQuery. Nothing is said about when the first official release will ship, but we can get a taste of what Bootstrap v5 will be like by using the Alpha to build a small application. This article goes over developing a Bootstrap v5 user interface for a TODO application.
