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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

Organising modules, their components, and naming files

At this point, I think it will be useful to consider a more detailed example module structure. It's similar to the structure in which I'm used to employing ECSS. It's a little more involved than our prior examples and gives another subtly different variation on how files could be organised and selectors named. As ever, from our CSS point of view our aim is isolation, consistency and solid developer ergonomics. Let's take a look.

Suppose we have a module. Its job is to load the sidebar area of our site. The directory structure might initially look like this:

SidebarModule/ => everything SidebarModule related lives in here
  /assets => any assets (images etc) for the module
  /css => all CSS files
  /min => minified CSS/JS files
  /components => all component logic for the module in
  here
  css-namespaces.json => a file to define all namespaces
  SidebarModule.js => logic for the module
  config...
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