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Mastering CSS Grid

You're reading from   Mastering CSS Grid A comprehensive and practical guide to creating beautiful layouts with CSS Grid

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804614846
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pascal Thormeier Pascal Thormeier
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1–Working with CSS Grid
2. Chapter 1: Understanding the Basic Rules and Structures for CSS Grid FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Project Introduction: What We’ll Work on and First Tasks 4. Chapter 3: Building Advanced Grid Layouts 5. Part 2 – Understanding the CSS Grid Periphery
6. Chapter 4: Understanding and Creating Responsive and Fluid Grid Layouts 7. Chapter 5: Implementing Layouts with Flexbox and CSS Grid 8. Chapter 6: Benefits of Grid Layouts and When Not to Use Them 9. Part 3 – Exploring the Wider Ecosystem
10. Chapter 7: Polyfilling CSS Grid’s Missing Features 11. Chapter 8: Grids in the Wild – How Frameworks Implement Grids 12. Part 4 – A Quick Reference
13. Chapter 9: Quick Reference and Cheat Sheet 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Learning how other frameworks don’t implement grids

With all the grid systems of various (but also often quite similar) syntax variations, there is also a diametrically opposed movement: not having grid systems at all.

For example, Spruce is a lesser-known CSS framework developed by Adam Laki and Szépe. It has 83 stars on GitHub but has been actively maintained since February 2022. Its philosophy is to be a modern Sass-based low-level framework that gives projects a solid foundation. More significant components use the BEM approach, and smaller components, such as buttons and form input fields, are styled with opinionated defaults.

According to the documentation, they think pre-implemented grid systems can be eliminated because of native CSS layout tools, such as CSS Grid and Flexbox. Therefore, they think that Bootstrap-like grids are not necessary anymore.

Tailwind technically doesn’t offer a classic grid system, either. It offers sensible defaults for...

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