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Nicolas Gallagher
April 09, 2014
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Adaptation and Components
About adaptable systems and the benefits of the component abstraction when building web UI's.
Nicolas Gallagher
April 09, 2014
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Adaptation and Components @necolas
“Adaption” vs “Change”
“Adaptable” vs “Adaptive”
Adaptable systems
2013 App 2014 App 2012 App
The ability to adapt-in-time is business-critical
Complexity affects the ability to adapt
Technology type as an organising principle
HTML A B C D ... CSS A B C
D ... JS A B C D ... UNIT A B C D ... ... A B C D ...
HTML A B C D ... CSS A B C
D ... JS A B C D ... UNIT A B C D ... ... A B C D ...
HTML AD B CD D ... CSS A AB C
D ... JS A B C D ... UNIT A B C D ... ... A B AC D ...
Leaky abstractions increase complexity
<article class="user"> <div class="avatar"> <img class="avatar-img" ...> <div class="tooltip hidden">...</div>
</div> <button class="btn btn-follow"> <span class="btn-icon"> <span class="icn icn-follow"></span> </span> <span class= "btn-text">...</span> </button> </article>
<article class="user"> <button class="btn btn-follow"> <span class="btn-icon"> <span class="icn icn-follow"></span>
</span> <span class= "btn-text">...</span> </button> </article> <div class="avatar"> <img class="avatar-img" ...> <div class="tooltip hidden">...</div> </div>
<article class="user"> <button class="btn btn-follow"> <span class="btn-icon"> <span class="icn icn-follow"></span>
</span> <span class= "btn-text">...</span> </button> </article> <div class="avatar"> <img class="user-img avatar-img" ...> <div class="tooltip hidden">...</div> </div>
/* avatar */ .avatar { } /* tweet */ .tweet
{ } .tweet .avatar { } .tweet .text {} /* user card */ .user { } .user .avatar { }
Modularity is not enough
Components as the primary unit of scale
A HTML CSS JS UNIT ...
A HTML CSS JS UNIT ... B HTML CSS JS
UNIT ...
A HTML CSS JS UNIT ... B HTML CSS JS
UNIT ... C HTML CSS JS UNIT ...
A HTML CSS JS UNIT ... B HTML CSS JS
UNIT ... C HTML CSS JS UNIT ... D HTML CSS JS UNIT ...
A HTML CSS JS UNIT ... B HTML CSS JS
UNIT ... C HTML CSS JS UNIT ... D HTML CSS JS UNIT ... ... HTML CSS JS UNIT ...
Components are simple
Components are composable & configurable
Reduces emergent complexity
Adaptable over reusable
facebook.github.io/react Defining components with React
/** @jsx React.DOM */ var Photo = React.createClass({ render: function
() { return ( <img src={this.props.src} /> ); } });
<Photo src="photo.jpg"> </Photo>
<figure className={'photo' + this.props.size}> <span className={'crop' + this.props.crop}> <img className="img"
src={this.props.src} alt= "" /> </span> <figcaption className="caption"> {this.props.children} </figcaption> </figure>
<Photo src="photo.jpg" size="large" crop="circle"> Half-Dome in Yosemite National Park <Attribution
owner="necolas" /> </Photo>
suitcss.github.io Styling components with SUIT CSS
<figure className={'photo' + this.props.size}> <span className={'crop' + this.props.crop}> <img className="img"
src={this.props.src} alt= "" /> </span> <figcaption className="caption"> {this.props.children} </figcaption> </figure>
<figure className={'photo' + this.props.size}> <span className={'crop' + this.props.crop}> <img className="img"
src={this.props.src} alt="" /> </span> <figcaption className="caption"> {this.props.children} </figcaption> </figure>
<figure className={'Photo Photo--' + this.props.size}> <span className={'Photo-crop Photo-crop--' + this.props.crop}>
<img className="Photo-img" src={this.props.src} alt="" /> </span> <figcaption className="Photo-caption u-textBreak"> {this.props.children} </figcaption> </figure>
/** @define Photo */ .Photo {} /* Component */ .Photo--large
{} /* Component modifier */ .Photo-crop {} /* Component descendent */ .Photo-crop--circle {} /* Descendent modifier */ .Photo-img {} .Photo-caption {}
<figure className={'Photo Photo--' + this.props.size}> <span className={'Photo-crop Photo-crop--' + this.props.crop}>
<img className="Photo-img" src={this.props.src} alt="" /> </span> <figcaption className="Photo-caption u-textBreak"> {this.props.children} </figcaption> </figure>
<figure className={'Photo Photo--' + this.props.size}> <span className={'Photo-crop Photo-crop--' + this.props.crop}>
<img className="Photo-img" src={this.props.src} alt="" /> </span> <figcaption className="Photo-caption u-textBreak"> {this.props.children} </figcaption> <Attribution owner={this.props.owner} /> </figure>
github.com/component/component Managing components with Component
A HTML CSS JS UNIT ... B HTML CSS JS
UNIT ... C HTML CSS JS UNIT ... D HTML CSS JS UNIT ... ... HTML CSS JS UNIT ...
A HTML CSS JS UNIT ...
A HTML CSS JS UNIT ... component.json
A HTML CSS JS UNIT ... component.json B
A HTML CSS JS UNIT ... component.json B C D
E F
{ "name": "tweet", "styles": [ "tweet.css" ], "scripts": [ "tweet.js"
], "dependencies": { "suitcss/utils": "0.8.0" }, "locals": [ "avatar", "inline-tweetbox", "tweet-actions" ] }
Building web UI is more than a CSS problem
The end @necolas