mdb-ui-kit/docs/migration.md

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docs	Migrating to v4	migration

Material Design for Bootstrap 4 is a major rewrite of almost the entire project. The most notable changes are summarized immediately below, followed by more specific class and behavioral changes to relevant components.

{% callout info %} Heads up! This will be in flux as work on the v4 alphas progresses. Until then consider it incomplete, and we'd love pull requests to help keep it up to date. {% endcallout %}

{% callout info %} These migration changes are for MDB, and should be considered in addition to the Bootstrap migration guidelines. {% endcallout %}

Summary

Here are the big ticket items you'll want to be aware of when moving from MDB v3 to v4.

Browser support

• Dropped IE8 and iOS 6 support. v4 is now only IE9+ and iOS 7+. For sites needing either of those, use v3.
• Added official support for Android v5.0 Lollipop's Browser and WebView. Earlier versions of the Android Browser and WebView remain only unofficially supported.

Global changes

• Switched from Less to SCSS for our source CSS files.
• No longer a theme that overrides Bootstrap, instead it is a full customization of Bootstrap.
• Switched from px to rem as our primary CSS unit.
• Global font-size increased from 14px to 16px.
• Switched Javascript to ES6 classes
• Globally switched MDB variables and classes to the prefix mdb- to avoid confusion with Bootstrap variables.
• Added strong scss-lint and eslint rules from Bootstrap
• Adopted Bootstrap project organization and Build structure
• Reference documentation is now synced from Bootstrap, rendered with MDB to show default rendering examples
• File renaming to be equivalent to Bootstrap files

Components

• Bootstrap dropped panels, thumbnails, and wells for a new all-encompassing component, cards (now part of BS4).
• Refactored nearly all components to use more unnested classes instead of children selectors.

Misc

• Non-responsive usage of Material Design for Bootstrap is no longer supported.

By component

This list highlights key changes by component between v3.x.x and v4.0.0.

State variants

• Removed any state variant that didn't already exist in Bootstrap
• Removed use of generic variant mixin

Typography

• Refactored and compared to spec. Aim to be spec compliant.
• Added dynamic size/color markers to Bootstrap reference documentation

Tables

• TODO

Forms

• Refactored with much less code now that we are customizing Bootstrap
• Simpler selectors
• Introduced .mdb-form-group to provide demarcation for label/input combinations, disconnecting it explicitly from .form-group so that they can be used independently.
• Spec review for sizing
• Bootstrap removed .help-block, MDB added .mdb-help class to mark added behaviors.
• Inverted marker class to use .is-filled instead of .is-empty for simpler css matches
• Bootstrap removed .form-group-sm and .form-group-lg. .mdb-form-group-* variants added to address sizing combinations of label/input/help
• V3 MDB toggle is now mdb-switch for more consistent naming with the spec
• TODO - File Input

Labels

• Labels are now (once again) set as a class on the label element.
• Use of mdb- prefixes.

Buttons

• Bootstrap renamed .btn-default to .btn-secondary.
• Utilized Bootstrap mixins for plain/hover/focus/active
• Introduced mixin mdb-hover-focus-active to address .active in addition to Bootstraps hover-focus-active
• Refactored shadow behaviors, now more consistent
• Changed btn-fab to mdb-btn-fab to denote MDB only component
• btn-fab-mini is now btn-fab-sm for consistency with Bootstrap size naming
• Introduced shadow behaviors to mdb-btn-fab. Spec is silent on this.

Navs

• Started over
• Initial focus on nav-tabs, nav-pills, and navbar-nav

Panels

Guidance included from Bootstrap's documentation:

• .panel to .card
• .panel-default removed and no replacement
• .panel-heading to .card-header
• .panel-title to .card-title
• .panel-body to .card-block
• .panel-footer to .card-footer
• .panel-primary to .card-primary and .card-inverse
• .panel-success to .card-success and .card-inverse
• .panel-info to .card-info and .card-inverse
• .panel-warning to .card-warning and .card-inverse
• .panel-danger to .card-danger and .card-inverse

Cards

• Started over with the introduction of cards in Bootstrap V4.

Documentation

Our documentation received an upgrade across the board as well. Here's the low down:

• We're using Jekyll (seeded from Bootstrap's project itself) and we have custom plugins in the mix:
  • example.rb is a fork of the default highlight.rb plugin, allowing for easier example-code handling.
  • callout.rb is a similar fork of that, but designed for our special docs callouts.
  • variables.rb which gathers the version from (package.json), dependencies from node_modules (package.json) and makes them available to render text and links in the documentation site.data. No more SED to replace versions everywhere!
• All docs content has been rewritten in Markdown (instead of HTML) for easier editing.
• Pages have been reorganized for simpler content and a more approachable hierarchy.
• We moved from regular CSS to SCSS to take full advantage of variables, mixins, and more.

What's new

TODO

What's removed

The following components have been removed in v4.0.0.

TODO