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At the command prompt in your git-test folder, type
npm init -
Install an NPM module, lite-server, that allows you to run a Node.js based development web server and serve up your project files. To do this, type the following at the prompt:
npm install lite-server --save-dev -
Next, start the development server by typing the following at the prompt:
npm start -
You will use npm to fetch the Bootstrap files for use within your project. Thereafter you need to install JQuery and Popper.js as shown below since Bootstrap 4 depends on these two. At the prompt, type the following to fetch Bootstrap files to your project folder:
npm install bootstrap@4.0.0 --save
npm install jquery@3.3.1 popper.js@1.12.9 --save -
One of the most popular icon font toolkit is Font Awesome. Go to its website http://fontawesome.io/ to check out more details about this icon font. You can get Font Awesome using npm by typing the following at the prompt:
npm install font-awesome@4.7.0 --save -
Another module that we install is Bootstrap Social that enables the addition of Social buttons to our site. You can find more information about it at https://lipis.github.io/bootstrap-social/. To install it using npm, type the following at the prompt:
npm install bootstrap-social@5.1.1 --save