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Enduring CSS

You're reading from   Enduring CSS Create robust and scalable CSS for any size web project

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787282803
Length 134 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ben Frain Ben Frain
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface
1. Writing Styles for Rapidly Changing, Long-lived Projects FREE CHAPTER 2. The Problems of CSS at Scale 3. Implementing Received Wisdom 4. Introducing the ECSS Methodology 5. File Organisation and Naming Conventions 6. Dealing with State Changes in ECSS 7. Applying ECSS to Your Website or Application 8. The Ten Commandments of Sane Style Sheets 9. Tooling for an ECSS Approach 1. CSS Selector Performance 2. Browser Representatives on CSS Performance

SMACSS

SMACSS, which stands for Scalable Modular Architecture for CSS, is detailed fully in Jonathan Snook's book on the subject (https://smacss.com/). I'm not going into detail about SMACSS here as I think you should go and check that book out for yourself. Reading SMACSS gave me plenty to chew over as I faced my own challenges and I certainly took things, such as how to think about state changes, from it. However, I will detail why SMACSS didn't work for me.

Again, like my caveat regarding my opinions on OOCSS, this isn't a critique of SMACSS. It's simply highlighting the parts that didn't work for me and why I felt it failed to solve my own problems. SMACSS has clearly defined terminology and concepts for the visual aspects of a website. It therefore prescribes base, layout, modules and optional theme rules/files to support these definitions. For example, consider this suggested file structure:

+-layout/ 
| +-grid.scss 
| +-alternate.scss 
+-module/ 
| +-callout...
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