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Seems pretty obvious question but, there is no accurate answer .
The articles and videos that I have seen are using laravel/ui
https://techvblogs.com/blog/how-to-install-bootstrap-5-in-laravel-9-with-vite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2SiHyK3dO4
https://dev.to/tanzimibthesam/install-boostrap-in-laravel-9-with-vite-5aj2
How can I install bootstrap without using laravel/ui ? Is this possible?
Did you check the documentation of Bootstrap itself? It is pretty clear what you need to do: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.2/getting-started/vite/
Bootstrap and Vite have nothing to do with Laravel itself because it's a CSS framework and not PHP code itself. So you should be good with following the Bootstrap tutorial.
@bobbybouwmann Thanks for your assistance. I thought that Laravel is going to config the vite.
It has nothing to do with Laravel
You can use CDN
<head>
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" integrity="sha384-Zenh87qX5JnK2Jl0vWa8Ck2rdkQ2Bzep5IDxbcnCeuOxjzrPF/et3URy9Bv1WTRi" crossorigin="anonymous">
</head>
<body>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js" integrity="sha384-OERcA2EqjJCMA+/3y+gxIOqMEjwtxJY7qPCqsdltbNJuaOe923+mo//f6V8Qbsw3" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
</body>
If you want to customize it for serve it from your server, follow the following: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.2/getting-started/vite/
@MohamedTammam That is not the question, right? He wants to use Vite to have it compile locally and optimize the output for production. The CDN won't do that for you.
@bobbybouwmann I think he just wants to install it anyway. And since Laravel using Vite so he mentioned that. I added that in that case.
Bootstrap is a framework of CSS means its used for design in frontend you can use bootstrap classes plus links its not used for backend
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