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Using single property classes in CSS Richard Bray @ceiga

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This is the first time I’ve ever done a talk

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This is my first FEL event!

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Why?

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Who am I?

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Developer / Designer / Product Designer

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Side Projects - richbray.me

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The Problem

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CSS has become complicated

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Before Write CSS Upload it. Done!

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Now Preprocessor Normal Css Post Process Minify

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Now Preprocessor Normal Css Post Process Minify

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Now Preprocessor Normal Css Post Process Minify Server Side Language Terminal Knowledge

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Now Version Control (maybe)

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Multiple files

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What If?

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Typical Process 1. Inspect Element in Chrome 2. Make change in Developer Tools 3. Run site locally 4. Locate .scss file and change 5. Save and View 6. Go through process mentioned previously

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Typical Process 1. Inspect Element in Chrome 2. Make change in Developer Tools 3. Run site locally 4. Locate .scss file and change 5. Save and View 6. Go through process mentioned previously

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New Process 1. Inspect Element in Chrome 2. Make change in Developer Tools 3. Update and save html file

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Not inline CSS

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Helper (or single property) Classes

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New Process 1. Inspect Element in Chrome 2. Make change in Developer Tools 3. Update and save html file

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How do you implement this?

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Either

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Or visit richbray.me/bricks

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Similar naming convention

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Or visit richbray.me/bricks

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New projects only! (unless you’re refactoring)

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Let your HTML do the work

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Another Thing

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Not a fan of @extends

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Use @mixins instead

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3 issues with this method

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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

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You Could

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Or Just leave it 2 KB compressed 82.34 KB compressed

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3. Media queries is tough

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Desktop Mobile

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

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http://digitalcroydon.net/event/