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The benefits of Atomic CSS Richard Bray @Ceiga

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Product Designer

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Side Projects - richbray.me

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Write articles and do talks, sometimes

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Atomic CSS disclaimer alert!!!

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Everyone doesn’t have to adopt this method.

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What is Atomic CSS (ACSS)?

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What is Atomic Design?

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“Atoms are the basic building blocks of matter. Applied to web interfaces, atoms are our HTML tags, such as a form label, an input or a button.” Brad Frost

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ACSS is a method of using one class for one CSS property so that same property can be used in different parts of a site.

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What does that look like?

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My preferred way of writing ACSS

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Until–I tried media queries with it

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Desktop Mobile

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Pseudo Classes/Elements

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acss.io

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will-change

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Wait, what about the round brackets () or parens if you’re American

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mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-escapes

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And that’s why I prefer - ()

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2 more advantages of using acss

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1. Quick prototyping

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Preprocessor Normal Css Post Process Minify

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Style Page Done!

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1. a Great way to visualise page

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2. Avoids overusing @extend

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4 disadvantages of using acss

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1. Lots of classes on a html element looks ‘ugly’

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2. Slight chance of bloating your CSS If not maintained

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acss.io

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3. Requires more maintenance than normal css

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4. It’s just like inline css

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- Can’t do media queries or pseudo classes - Inline css not cached - Uses more characters than acss

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This isn’t a new concept

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http://ux.mailchimp.com/patterns/helpers

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http://ux.mailchimp.com/patterns/helpers

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Open source acss projects

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and much much more…

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Everyone doesn’t have to adopt this method.

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http://digitalcroydon.net/event/

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Thank You! Richard Bray @Ceiga https://github.com/RichardBray