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Mastering CSS Grid

By : Pascal Thormeier
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Book Image

Mastering CSS Grid

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By: Pascal Thormeier

Overview of this book

CSS Grid has revolutionized web design by filling a long-existing gap in creating real, dynamic grids on the web. This book will help you grasp these CSS Grid concepts in a step-by-step way, empowering you with the knowledge and skills needed to design beautiful and responsive grid-based layouts for your web projects. This book provides a comprehensive coverage of CSS Grid by taking you through both fundamental and advanced concepts with practical exercises. You'll learn how to create responsive layouts and discover best practices for incorporating grids into any design. As you advance, you'll explore the dynamic interplay between CSS Grid and flexbox, culminating in the development of a usable responsive web project as a reference for further improvement. You'll also see how frameworks utilize CSS Grid to construct reusable components and learn to rebuild and polyfill CSS Grid for browsers that don't fully support it yet. The concluding chapters include a quick reference and cheat sheet, making this book an indispensable resource for frontend developers of all skill levels. By the end of this book, you'll have thoroughly explored all aspects of CSS Grid and gained expert-level proficiency, enabling you to craft beautiful and functional layouts for web projects of any size.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1–Working with CSS Grid
5
Part 2 – Understanding the CSS Grid Periphery
9
Part 3 – Exploring the Wider Ecosystem
12
Part 4 – A Quick Reference

Summary

This chapter served to show us what it takes to implement features on CSS Grid and what it takes to create polyfills for CSS on our own. We’ve talked about the need, or lack thereof, for polyfills and how they can cause more harm than help to us.

We can create CSS polyfills quickly with PostCSS and Browserify. Still, often we shouldn’t, as the specifications of the polyfilled features are often either not complete or browser vendors are about to deliver an implementation themselves.

In the next chapter, we’ll look at some popular CSS frameworks. We’ll inspect their grid implementations and see how they might use CSS Grid if they’re using it at all. Looking at CSS Grid in the wild helps us understand how some of the foremost CSS experts understand CSS Grid.