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Enduring CSS

Enduring CSS

By : Ben Frain
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Enduring CSS

Enduring CSS

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By: Ben Frain

Overview of this book

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.
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1. Writing Styles for Rapidly Changing, Long-lived Projects
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3. Implementing Received Wisdom

Summary

Some takeaways from these tests:

  • Sweating over the selectors used in modern browsers is futile; most selection methods are now so fast it's really not worth spending much time over. Furthermore, there is disparity across browsers of what the slowest selectors are anyway. Look here last to speed up your CSS.
  • Excessive unused styles are likely to cost more, performance wise, than any selectors you chose so look to tidy up there second. 3000 lines that are unused or surplus on a page are not even that uncommon. While it's common to bunch all the styles up into a great big single styles.css, if different areas of your site/web application can have different (additional) style sheets added (dependency graph style), that may be the better option.
  • If your CSS has been added to by a number of different authors over time, look to tools like UnCSS (https://github.com/giakki/uncss) to automate the removal of styles; doing that process by hand is no fun!
  • The battle for high performing...
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