Reactstrap vs Bootstrap | Beginners Guide

In this tutorial, we’ll compare Reactstrap vs Bootstrap, as well as their installation, functionality, and differences, using a simple piece of code.

Table Of Contents

What is Bootstrap
What is Reactstrap
Comparison – Reactstrap vs Bootstrap
Example using Bootstrap
Prerequisites – Reactstrap vs Bootstrap
Example using Reactstrap
- Step 01: Create React Project
- Step 02: Install Bootstrap
Conclusion – Reactstrap vs Bootstrap

What is Bootstrap

Bootstrap is an open-source toolkit for HTML, CSS, and JS development. With our Sass variables and mixins, responsive grid system, large prebuilt components, and powerful jQuery plugins, you can quickly prototype your ideas or develop your full project.

Bootstrap contains design templates for typography, forms, buttons, tables, navigation, modals, picture carousels, and more, as well as optional JavaScript plugins.

What is Reactstrap

This package offers components for React Bootstrap 4 that emphasize composition and control. The library isn’t reliant on jQuery or the Bootstrap javascript framework. For advanced placement of content such as Tooltips, Popovers, and auto-flipping Dropdowns, https://popper.js.org/ through https://github.com/souporserious/react-popper is used.

To get the most out of this library, you’ll need to understand a few key principles.

Props are anticipated to be used to create your content. Instead of utilising named props to pass in Components, use children.
This library’s attributes are used to pass in state, apply modifier classes quickly, enabling advanced functionality (like popperjs), and add non-content based items automatically.

Comparison – Reactstrap vs Bootstrap

	Bootstrap	Reactstrap
Description	The most popular front-end framework for developing responsive, mobile-first projects on the web.	React Bootstrap components
Keywords	CSS, sass, mobile-first, responsive, front-end, framework, web	reactstrap, bootstrap, react, component, components, react-component, UI
Author	The Bootstrap Authors	N/A
Licenses	MIT	MIT
Created	Aug 2011	Feb 2016
Modified	21 days ago	a month ago
Total Versions	50	144
Version Average	every 2 months	every 15 days
Maintainers	3	6
Dependencies	0	6
Subscribers	7007	177
Install	npm i -S bootstrap	npm i -S reactstrap
Remove	npm r -S bootstrap	npm r -S reactstrap

Example using Bootstrap

Create a simple HTML file and paste the following code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Bootstrap Example</title>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<div class="jumbotron text-center">
  <h1>My First Bootstrap Page by Softhunt</h1>
  <p>Resize this responsive page to see the effect!</p> 
</div>
  
<div class="container">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-sm-4">
      <h3>Column 1</h3>
      <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit...</p>
      <p>Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris...</p>
    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-4">
      <h3>Column 2</h3>
      <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit...</p>
      <p>Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris...</p>
    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-4">
      <h3>Column 3</h3>        
      <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit...</p>
      <p>Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris...</p>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Output:

Prerequisites – Reactstrap vs Bootstrap

We should have a basic knowledge of HTML and JavaScript.
Visual Studio Code should be installed.
Node and NPM installed.

Example using Reactstrap

To run this example you have to follow the below steps: Before this Download the latest version of Node.js according to the Windows version (64-bit or 32-bit) on your machine.

Step 01: Create React Project

By typing the following command in cmd (command line prompt) to create a React project.

npx create-react-app softhunt

Here we will take the app name as the softhunt.

Step 02: Install Bootstrap

Because Reactstrap does not include Bootstrap CSS, we must first install Bootstrap. Install two application configuration settings — one that saves the name of the MongoDB database and the other that includes the MongoDB connection string — using the following command (with a placeholder for the database name). You should have something like:

npm install --save bootstrap

Install Reactstrap by using the following command:

npm install --save reactstrap react react-dom

Now open the index.js file and import Bootstrap CSS.

import 'bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css';

Right-click the src folder and select New Component, named ReactstrapDemo.js

After this, open the ReactstrapDemo.js component and add the following code:

import React, { Component } from 'react'
import { Button } from 'reactstrap';

export class ReactstrapDemo extends Component {

        render() {
                return (
    <Button color="danger">Danger!</Button>
  );
}
};
export default ReactstrapDemo;

Now, open the app.js file and add the following code:

import React from 'react';
import logo from './logo.svg';
import './App.css';
import ReactstrapDemo from './ReactstrapDemo'
function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <ReactstrapDemo></ReactstrapDemo>
    </div>
  );
}
export default App;

Now, run the project and check the result:

Conclusion – Reactstrap vs Bootstrap

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