Getting Started instructions

Full documentation and demonstrations of the theme

A Bootstrap version 4.3 BC Government look-and-feel featuring:

• The BC Sans typeface
• Compatibility with pure Bootstrap markup
• A few additions:
  • bcgold colour classes for the old-style gold buttons (btn-bcgold, bg-bcgold, etc)
  • card classes to replace the old panel styles (card-primary, card-success, etc)
• Increased contrast for accessibility
• No Javascript extensions. Bootstrap itself, jQuery and popper.js are optional dependencies
• Source SCSS files are included in the distribution, allowing local customizations
• Supports NPM, Yarn and Bower package manager integration
• Includes sample HTML pages and common components like headers and footers for quick setup

The project is a successor to the previous Gov-2.0-Bootstrap-Skeleton and mygovbc-bootstrap-theme. We combined the best of both projects and leverage the latest Bootstrap version.

If you find yourself wanting to enhance or fix the theme you'll be interested reading this section on how to setup this source on your local device.

First, we do accept pull requests and will promptly merge fixes or enhancements if they make sense for the rest of the relying applications. Note, you should probably check out our issues and/or raise an issue before doing the pull request.

You'll need the following tools installed on your device to begin working on the theme:

• The Git client and a GitHub account
• NodeJS 6 or greater with NPM 3 or greater to build
• Ruby or Docker to build the Jekyll docs

After your tools are in place, you should clone and install some packages:

git clone [email protected]:bcgov/bootstrap-theme.git
cd bootstrap-theme
npm install
gem install bundler
bundle install

To build the styles, Javascript and other assets, use:

npm run build

Or for continous building:

npm run watch

To build the docs (Jekyll), use:

npm run docs-compile

Or for continuous building and serving:

npm run docs-serve

In two different shells, run npm run watch and npm run docs-serve.

If you prefer to build inside a Docker container, run ./jekyll-docker.sh serve.