Should the bootstrap css be required in when using ng-bootstrap?

Being new to this project, the following lines from the “getting started” threw me out completely:

Should I add bootstrap.js or bootstrap.min.js to my project? No, the goal of ng-bootstrap is to completely replace JavaScript implementation for components. Nor should you include other dependencies like jQuery or popper.js. It is not necessary and might interfere with ng-bootstrap code.

I noticed that the same problem was reported on Stackoverflow.

Should the getting-started include some words on including the css file within styles.css upon having run an npm install bootstrap? For example:

@import "../node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css"

[hcerpandam]

Hi, i arrived here following the topic https://github.com/ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap/pull/2204.

I’ve seen that the first time somebody refered to the unclear instructions about the Bootstrap CSS dependency was on feb/10 and still the instructions are really unclear.

As a complete begginer 'im gonna tell you what i’ve done, in case you want to change something in the getting started section:

CMD:

-Creating new Angular project

ng new name-of-my-project Angular routing (y) Style (css)//¿Can i use scss?

-Installing Bootstrap npm install bootstrap

-Installing ng-bootstrap npm install --save @ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap

IntelliJ:

In app-module.ts

import {NgbModule} from ‘@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap’; @NgModule({ Imports:[…,NgbModule])}

In styles.css For CSS: @import ‘~bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css’; For SCSS: @import “~bootstrap/scss/bootstrap”

What about in angular.json?

The problem is that i’ve donde most of the steps reading the comments of people complaining about this issue. Honestly i think that things could be even easier, like using npm i bootstrap-css-only, but i don’t dare to do any more changes. Learning that took me a couple of days.

Answering the question, i can’t see any single reason why Bootstrap CSS shouldn’t been included on ng-bootstrap

Thanks

[robeverett]

I think it is bizarre that the css isn’t available through ng-bootstrap ! It’s certainly a nasty “gotcha” that can cause days of wasted development time.