How to configure Bootstrap in React app — reactstrap

Kavindu Gayan
2 min readJul 3, 2021

A ‘bootstrap’ is one of the most famous CSS framework, which gives rich features for mobile responsive designs using pre-built CSS and java script libraries.

A ‘reactstrap’ is a library which specially design for react. which gives pre-built bootstrap 4 components, which gives flexibility and usability.

Installing bootstrap

npm install bootstrap

yarn add bootstrap

Installing reactstrap

npm install reactstrap reactpopper — — save

yarn add reactstrap reactpopper

Adding to the project

Once we install the bootstrap library, we can use bootstrap.min.css file to the index.js. It is better import a bootstrap.min.css file before the index.css file, since we can override default bootstrap styles from the our custom styles, if required.

Import the components

Then you can import the bootstrap components, inside any component where you need.

Use them

example 1:

example 2:

https://reactstrap.github.io/

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