Bootstrap 4 card-deck with number of columns based on viewport

Question

I'm trying to implement the card-deck feature in bootstrap 4 to make all of my cards the same height.

The examples that bootstrap provides show 4 nice cards, but it's 4 cards on the row, no matter the viewport. See the codeply here.

This doesn't make sense to me since, I would assume, that you'd want a minimum size for your card to shrink to in order for your content to still look good.

I then tried adding in some viewport classes to break on screen sizes, but as soon as that div gets added, the card-deck doesn't apply anymore, thus not making the cards equal height.

How can I get this accomplished? Is this a missing feature that will be addressed in the full release of Bootstrap 4?

Here's the fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/crrm5q9m/

<div class="card-deck-wrapper">
  <div class="card-deck">
    <div class="card card-inverse card-success text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>It's really good news that the new Bootstrap 4 now has support for CSS 3 flexbox.</p>
          <footer>Makes flexible layouts <cite title="Source Title">Faster</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="card card-inverse card-danger text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>The Bootstrap 3.x element that was called "Panel" before, is now called a "Card".</p>
          <footer>All of this makes more <cite title="Source Title">Sense</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="card card-inverse card-warning text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>There are also some interesting new text classes for uppercase and capitalize.</p>
          <footer>These handy utilities make it <cite title="Source Title">Easy</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="card card-inverse card-info text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>If you want to use cool icons in Bootstrap 4, you'll have to find your own such as Font Awesome or Ionicons.</p>
          <footer>The Glyphicons are not <cite title="Source Title">Included</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
        <div class="card card-inverse card-success text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>It's really good news that the new Bootstrap 4 now has support for CSS 3 flexbox.</p>
          <footer>Makes flexible layouts <cite title="Source Title">Faster</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="card card-inverse card-danger text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>The Bootstrap 3.x element that was called "Panel" before, is now called a "Card".</p>
          <footer>All of this makes more <cite title="Source Title">Sense</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="card card-inverse card-warning text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>There are also some interesting new text classes for uppercase and capitalize.</p>
          <footer>These handy utilities make it <cite title="Source Title">Easy</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="card card-inverse card-info text-center col-xs-6 col-sm-4 col-md-3 col-lg-2 col-xl-1">
      <div class="card-block">
        <blockquote class="card-blockquote">
          <p>If you want to use cool icons in Bootstrap 4, you'll have to find your own such as Font Awesome or Ionicons.</p>
          <footer>The Glyphicons are not <cite title="Source Title">Included</cite></footer>
        </blockquote>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Answer 1

Updated 2018

If you want a responsive card-deck, use the visibility utils to force a wrap every X columns on different viewport width(breakpoints)...

Bootstrap 4 responsive card-deck (v 4.1)

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Original answer for Bootstrap 4 alpha 2:

You can use the grid col-*-* to get the different widths (instead of card-deck) and then set equal height to the cols using flexbox.

.row > div[class*='col-'] {
  display: flex;
  flex:1 0 auto;
}

http://codeply.com/go/O0KdSG2YX2 (alpha 2)

The problem is that w/o flexbox enabled the card-deck uses table-cell where it becomes very hard to control the width. As of Bootstrap 4 Alpha 6, flexbox is default so the additional CSS is not required for flexbox, and the h-100 class can be used to make the cards full height: http://www.codeply.com/go/gnOzxd4Spk

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