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Using single property classes in CSS - FEL Nov ...

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November 27, 2015
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Transcript

  1. Using single property classes in CSS Richard Bray @ceiga

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

  3. This is my first FEL event!

  4. None

  5. Why?

  6. None

  7. Who am I?

  8. Developer / Designer / Product Designer

  9. None

  10. Side Projects - richbray.me

  11. The Problem

  12. CSS has become complicated

  13. Before Write CSS Upload it. Done!

  14. Now Preprocessor Normal Css Post Process Minify

  15. Now Preprocessor Normal Css Post Process Minify

  16. Now Preprocessor Normal Css Post Process Minify Server Side Language

    Terminal Knowledge

  17. Now Version Control (maybe)

  18. None

  19. Multiple files

  20. What If?

  21. None

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. New Process 1. Inspect Element in Chrome 2. Make change

    in Developer Tools 3. Update and save html file

  25. Not inline CSS

  26. Helper (or single property) Classes

  27. None
  28. None
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  32. New Process 1. Inspect Element in Chrome 2. Make change

    in Developer Tools 3. Update and save html file

  33. How do you implement this?

  34. Either

  35. Or visit richbray.me/bricks

  36. None
  37. None
  38. None

  39. Similar naming convention

  40. Or visit richbray.me/bricks

  41. New projects only! (unless you’re refactoring)

  42. Let your HTML do the work

  43. Another Thing

  44. Not a fan of @extends

  45. None
  46. None

  47. Use @mixins instead

  48. 3 issues with this method

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

  50. None
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  53. 2. Slight chance of bloating your CSS

  54. None
  55. None

  56. You Could

  57. Or Just leave it 2 KB compressed 82.34 KB compressed

  58. 3. Media queries is tough

  59. None

  60. Desktop Mobile

  61. None

  62. This isn’t a new concept

  63. None
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  67. http://ux.mailchimp.com/patterns/helpers

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

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

  70. http://digitalcroydon.net/event/