how to specify bootstrap version on laravel/ui package?

Question

i am trying to using bootstrap on my laravel project using the laravel/ui package

https://github.com/laravel/ui

i am following the installation instruction

composer require laravel/ui and choose the php artisan ui bootstrap to use the bootstrap

by default it install bootstrap 5 but i need the version 4 for the adminlte3 theme

is there a way to specify which bootstrap version that i can use ?

since i'm want to use the version 4 of it not 5

Answer 1

There is no such option. The bootstrap version to be installed is hardcoded in the Laravel\Ui\Presets\Bootstrap class.

These are the packages that get added to your package.json dependencies with Laravel UI 4.

'bootstrap' => '^5.2.3',
'@popperjs/core' => '^2.11.6',
'sass' => '^1.56.1',

Simply change them with the ones that were added with Laravel UI 2, the last major version to use Bootstrap 4. I ignore if sass-loader is strictly needed.

'bootstrap' => '^4.0.0',
'jquery' => '^3.2',
'popper.js' => '^1.12',
'sass' => '^1.15.2',
'sass-loader' => '^8.0.0',

You'll also need to manually copy some stubs over to your project.

• https://github.com/laravel/ui/tree/2.x/src/Presets/bootstrap-stubs
• https://github.com/laravel/ui/tree/2.x/src/Auth/bootstrap-stubs