Using Bootstrap with React

Because both are great!

Gerald Nguyen
Gerald Nguyen
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Mixing browser and React

Insert links to Bootstrap’s javascript and CSS and its dependencies in app’s index.html

<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-Vkoo8x4CGsO3+Hhxv8T/Q5PaXtkKtu6ug5TOeNV6gBiFeWPGFN9MuhOf23Q9Ifjh" crossorigin="anonymous">
</head>

<body>

  <!-- other content -->
  
  <script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.4.1/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-wfSDF2E50Y2D1uUdj0O3uMBJnjuUD4Ih7YwaYd1iqfktj0Uod8GCExl3Og8ifwB6" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

  <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-J6qa4849blE2+poT4WnyKhv5vZF5SrPo0iEjwBvKU7imGFAV0wwj1yYfoRSJoZ+n" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
  <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/popper.js@1.16.0/dist/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-Q6E9RHvbIyZFJoft+2mJbHaEWldlvI9IOYy5n3zV9zzTtmI3UksdQRVvoxMfooAo" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
</body>

Invoke appropriate method via window.$ jQuery object

window.$('#about-modal').modal()

Pure React way

Install Bootstrap as a NPM module

npm install bootstrap --save
npm install jquery popper.js --save

Load bootstrap CSS and Javascript in React app’s entry point (e.g. index.jsx or app.jsx)

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

Obtain $ jQuery object and invoke appropriate method

import $ from 'jquery';
...
$('#sync-modal').modal(),

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