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XXLCSS
How to scale CSS and keep your sanity
@sugarenia
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XXLCSS
How to scale CSS and keep your sanity
@sugarenia
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I’m Sugar.
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I’m a designer.
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I’m happy.
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Web design is awesome!
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Web design is awesome!
...sometimes
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The problem
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Maintainability
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OOCSS
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OOCSS
SMACSS
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OOCSS
SMACSS
Sass
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OOCSS
SMACSS
Sass
Bootstrap & Foundation
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The goals
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GOAL #1
Don’t start from scratch
every time
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GOAL #2
Markup standards,
especially for large teams
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GOAL #3
Don’t bug your designers
about ALL THE THINGS
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GOALS #4, #5 & #6
Flexibility
Speed
Performance
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GOAL #7
Own the code
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Best practices
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Avoid classitis
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Avoid extra markup
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Non-semantic class names
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Use descendant selectors
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No.
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Better practices
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Developers know better
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Developers know better
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Developers know better
Abstraction
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Developers know better
Abstraction
Object orientation
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Developers know better
Abstraction
Object orientation
Performance first
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Developers know better
Abstraction
Object orientation
Performance first
DRY
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Developers know better
Abstraction
Object orientation
Performance first
DRY
KISS
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No IDs in CSS please
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#header
#footer
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#header
#footer
#footer { background-color: #000; }
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#header
#footer
#footer { background-color: #000; }
#footer a { color: #fff; }
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#header
#footer
.twitter
#footer { background-color: #000; }
#footer a { color: #fff; }
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#header
#footer
.twitter
#footer { background-color: #000; }
#footer a { color: #fff; }
.twitter { background-color: #fff; }
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#header
#footer
.twitter
#footer { background-color: #000; }
#footer a { color: #fff; }
.twitter { background-color: #fff; }
.twitter a { color: #000; }
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#header
#footer
.twitter
#footer { background-color: #000; }
#footer a { color: #fff; }
.twitter { background-color: #fff; }
.twitter a { color: #000; }
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Semantic?
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Semantic? Pragmatic.
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Sidebar heading
Footer heading
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Big heading
Sidebar heading
Footer heading
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Big heading
Sidebar heading
Footer heading
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Big heading
Sidebar heading
Footer heading
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Style classes are
totally OK, dude
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Classes work much better when we use them
to represent visual semantics, rather than
keeping them tied to content.
— Nicole Sullivan (@stubbornella)
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...
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Descendant selectors
can bite you
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This is the box header
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This is the box header
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This is the box header
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This is the box header
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This is the box header
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Modularize
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Stop overdesigning
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Stop thinking in pages
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Everything is a module
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consectetur adipiscing elit.
Donec a posuere velit.
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consectetur adipiscing elit.
Donec a posuere velit.
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consectetur adipiscing elit.
Donec a posuere velit.
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@Stubbornella 14 minutes ago
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.media, .bd { overflow:hidden; }
.media .img { float:left; margin-right: 10px; }
.media .img img { display:block; }
.media .imgExt { float:right; margin-left: 10px; }
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Do one thing
and one thing only
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Combine modules
for fun and profit
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Modules should be
oblivious of their context
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Toolbox
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Preprocessors
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Preprocessors
Sass, that is.
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CSS Frameworks
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...or UI Toolkits?
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The time saved using a css framework is
spent looking up how to work with that
framework.
— Jesse Shawl (@jshawl)
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Updating is hell
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MY ADVICE
Roll your own framework
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Living style guides
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http://style.codeforamerica.org
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http://patterns.alistapart.com
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Better collaboration
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Avoid code duplication
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Easy device testing
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http://vinspee.me/style-guide-guide/
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Do try this at home.
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Thanks!
You rock.
@sugarenia