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The benefits of Atomic CSS - London Sass Feb 2016

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Transcript

  1. The benefits of Atomic CSS Richard Bray @Ceiga

  2. Product Designer

  3. Side Projects - richbray.me

  4. Write articles and do talks, sometimes

  5. Atomic CSS disclaimer alert!!!

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  8. Everyone doesn’t have to adopt this method.

  9. What is Atomic CSS (ACSS)?

  10. What is Atomic Design?

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  12. “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

  13. 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.

  14. What does that look like?

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  17. My preferred way of writing ACSS

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  28. Until–I tried media queries with it

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  30. Desktop Mobile

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  32. Pseudo Classes/Elements

  33. acss.io

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  35. will-change

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  39. Wait, what about the round brackets () or parens if

    you’re American
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  41. mathiasbynens.be/notes/css-escapes

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  44. And that’s why I prefer - ()

  45. 2 more advantages of using acss

  46. 1. Quick prototyping

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  49. Preprocessor Normal Css Post Process Minify

  50. Style Page Done!

  51. 1. a Great way to visualise page

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  53. 2. Avoids overusing @extend

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  58. 4 disadvantages of using acss

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

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  62. 2. Slight chance of bloating your CSS If not maintained

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  65. acss.io

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  68. 3. Requires more maintenance than normal css

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  71. 4. It’s just like inline css

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  73. - Can’t do media queries or pseudo classes - Inline

    css not cached - Uses more characters than acss

  74. This isn’t a new concept

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

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

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  83. Open source acss projects

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  87. and much much more…

  88. Everyone doesn’t have to adopt this method.

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  92. http://digitalcroydon.net/event/

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