title: Approach
description: Learn about the guiding principles, strategies, and techniques used to build and maintain Bootstrap so you can more easily customize and extend it yourself.
group: extend
+redirect_from: "/docs/4.2/extend/"
---
While the getting started pages provide an introductory tour of the project and what it offers, this document focuses on _why_ we do the things we do in Bootstrap. It explains our philosophy to building on the web so that others can learn from us, contribute with us, and help us improve.