Bootstrap 4 and 5 Customiser

I love Bootstrap v4 and now that it is finally in Beta can start to use it in new projects.

But I miss the online customizer that was available for Bootstrap v3.

Perhaps one day the Bootstrap team will make a v4 customizer available on the Bootstrap website but I thought it might be handy to create on myself.

Presenting Bootstrap Customizer.

I wrote a simple website in PHP and used a Sass library called scssphp.

Bootstrap Customizer is simply a web form with fields for all Bootstrap Sass variables, and upon submission it compiles these variables and the Bootstrap SCSS files into a single Bootstrap CSS file.

Bootstrap Customizer is currently Alpha, and I plan to add some more features as time allows:

• Option to exclude Bootstrap v4 components and features
• Save customizations to a database so that they can be modified and recompiled
• CSS minification

UPDATE: Bootstrap v5 is out now and I have updated Bootstrap Customizer for each Bootstrap release from v4 Beta to the latest v5 release.

Customizations are stored to a database and inside each downloaded CSS file there is a link to return to the customizer and make further changes.

If a file was generated for an earlier Bootstrap release, you will be given the option to migrate your customizations to the latest release.

The website also has a small number of articles on Bootstrap.