Enduring CSS - Softcover

Frain, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1787282805 ISBN 13: 9781787282803

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Key Features Address the problems of CSS at scale, avoiding the shortfalls of scaling CSS. The shortfalls of conventional approaches to scaling CSS. Develop consistent and enforceable selector naming conventions with ECSS. Learn how to organize project structure to more easily isolate and decouple visual components. Book Description Learn with me, Ben Frain, about how to really THINK about CSS and how to use CSS for any size project! I'll show you how to write CSS that endures continual iteration, multiple authors, and yet always produces predictable results. Enduring CSS, often referred to as ECSS, offers you a robust and proven approach to authoring and maintaining style sheets at scale. Enduring CSS is not a book about writing CSS, as in the stuff inside the curly braces. This is a book showing you how to think about CSS, and be a smarter developer with that thinking! It's about the organisation and architecture of CSS - the parts outside the braces. I will help you think about the aspects of CSS development that become the most difficult part of writing CSS in larger projects. You’ll learn about the problems of authoring CSS at scale - including specificity, the cascade and styles intrinsically tied to document structure. I'll introduce you to the ECSS methodology, and show you how to develop consistent and enforceable selector naming conventions. We'll cover how to apply ECSS to your web applications and visual model, and how you can organize your project structure wisely, and handle visual state changes with ARIA, providing greater accessibility considerations. In addition, we'll take a deep look into CSS tooling and process considerations. Finally we will address performance considerations by examining topics such as CSS selector speed with hard data and browser-representative insight. What you will learn The problems of CSS at scale - specificity, the cascade and styles intrinsically tied to element

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About the Author

Ben Frain, Senior Front-end Developer at bet365, is a widely respected CSS developer and industry thought leader. Ben is the author of two successful and widely respected books Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 and Sass and Compass for Designers, both published by Packt Publishing. Ben lives in Cheshire, England with his wife and two children. You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/benfrain and at his website (http://benfrain.com).

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787282805
• ISBN 13: 9781787282803
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 134