Install Bootstrap 5 using NPM or Composer ?

Hi,

I would like to migrate my theme from Bootstrap 4 to Bootstrap 5.

I found out that I had difficulties to get the difference between composer and npm.

On the documentation, I can install Bootstrap 5 in two ways:

composer require twbs/bootstrap:5.0.1

Or using npm

npm install bootstrap

or using CDN

So far I know that Composer is for PHP package, NPM for JS package but in this case how to choose ? what is the most convenient way and especially a way that makes sens ?

If you could give me an insight, it would be great.

Thank you

tisuchi

5 years ago

Level 70

@lirone If you don't customize hugely, and just use bootstrap simply calling the classes in your div, I believe the easiest way would be to use CDN.

Now, if you compare between using composer and npm, I would recommend that, use NPM because:

CSS framework uses for frontend rendering. So, good practice would be to use JS dependency manager.
If you use NPM, it will be easy for you to customize in the future.

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lirone

5 years ago

Level 4

Thank you for your concise answer !

martinbean

5 years ago

Level 80

Install Bootstrap using NPM. I have no idea why they’d offer it as a Composer package when Composer is for installing PHP packages.

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lirone

5 years ago

Level 4

It confused me as well. Thank

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