Meaningful CSS: Style Like You Mean It · An A List Apart Article
Our markup too often remains a snarl of divs, our CSS a chaos of classes. Tim Baxter urges us to move beyond that. We can use real objects now instead of abstract representations. We can write CSS …
How CSS unit tests helped us move fast – on progressive web apps
The way you manage styles can make or break a long-running web project. Keeping things modular helps a great deal, but that’s only part of the solution. Six months ago we had a go at setting up CSS unit tests for our UI components. Brilliant decision, as it turns out! Since then, our job is a lot nicer. The speed of development is fast and steady. Each of us on the team is now coding with confidence, without the fear that things might unexpectedly break. And here’s how we did it:
Harry Roberts recently wrote about creating a Specificity Graph to get a better picture of your CSS. Harry’s conclusion is that a spiky graph is a bad graph. Spikes that occur mid-graph could lea...
In this new Pattern Build series, we’re going to pick a pattern on the web and write modular, responsive, and reusable HTML and CSS for the particular pattern. This week, we’re going to recreate the cards seen on CodePen.
Hugo speaks from experience and gives us his personal suggestions on how to deal with a messy codebase, whether it's our own old project or something inherited.
There's 5 things that helped me shape up the way I code my designs enormously: coding guidelines, itcss, namespaced CSS, BEM and documentation in a front-end style guide.
The focus was on improving our Front End skills through a two-day workshop, but the experience gave us more than a bunch of technical skills and knowledge. Writing CSS is very simple.
Object-Oriented HTML, and OOCSS · Jens Oliver Meiert
“Object-oriented CSS” is the idea of treating page elements as objects, giving all these objects classes, treating objects’ classes as single entities in style sheets, and taking it from there. I reviewed the old OOCSS site and Smashing Magazine’s introduction.
How to Write Better CSS with Performance in Mind - Hongkiat
Editor's note: This article is part of our Code Optimization series, where we take a look at how to optimize coding for better efficiency in a bid to be
A blog post titled Things To Avoid When Writing CSS caught our attention a few days ago. We appreciate the author's point of view, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to agree on all the points raised.
Erfahren Sie in diesem Artikel, wie wichtig die Berücksichtigung von verschiedenen Arten der Skalierbarkeit bei der Wahl einer Software-Architektur ist.
CSS methodologies help you create maintainable/scalable stylesheets. Also, following a set of guidelines/best practices for your projects has many benefits.
