Addons in MDB5 - for noobs

Hey guys!

I am a long time developer that grew up with ftp protocol and the 90:s html code. Love it! But in recent days I have learnt that I need to change ftp for ssh and started to explore github and so on.

My problem now is that I feel that I cant get the full use of my MDBS subscription due to lack of knowledge. I have installed my own reposatories according to all the fancy manuals. But when it comes to addons such as some colors, some functionalities and so on I can clearly find them in the folder systems if I would download the project as a zip file or similar. I can see that there are modules and maps of different kind that I would like to activate and there is a lot of existence of @import tags here and there.

I just want to get the basics up and running so that I would be able to do things that just doesnt seem to work without activating addons. Now lates I wanted to have a select dropdown with the possibility to search the options. In previous versions (MDB jquery) it was simple and automated - not when adding the data-mdb-filter="true" absolutly nothing happens. And I have more of those cases so I am quite sure my knowledge is the problem here.

If anyone has the energy to help point me in the right direction that would be awesome!

Best regards, Michael