Enduring Css: Architect And Maintain Large-Scale Css Codebases
by Ben Frain /
2015 / English / PDF
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This is a book to deal with writing CSS for large-scale, rapidly changing web projects and applications. This isn't actually a book about writing CSS, as in the stuff inside the curly braces. It's a book about the organisation and architecture of CSS; the parts outside the braces. It's the considerations that can be happily ignored on smaller projects but actually become the most difficult part of writing CSS in larger projects. - The problems of CSS at scale: specificity, the cascade and styles intrinsically tied to element structure. - The shortfalls of conventional approaches to scaling CSS. - The ECSS methodology and the problems it solves. - How to develop consistent and enforceable selector naming conventions with ECSS. - How to organise project structure to more easily isolate and decouple visual components. - How to handle state changes in the DOM with ARIA or overide selectors. - How to apply ECSS to web applications and visual modules. - Considerations of CSS tooling and processing: Sass/PostCSS and linting. - Addressing the practicalities of using potentially problematic HTML elements. - Addressing the notion of CSS selector speed with hard data and browser representative insight.
