Ed Williams edwilliams

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

The 4 C's of good technical communication:

concise

Concision not only saves the audience time, it cuts out distracting verbiage and helps avoid burying key information in a sea of boiler plate.

Audiences very often revisit sources, and concision makes it easier to relocate particular bits of information.

Smaller pieces are easier to rearrange, and so in practice, the more concise, the more authors are likely to work out an ideal structure.

The 0.13.0 improvements to React Components are often framed as "es6 classes" but being able to use the new class syntax isn't really the big change. The main thing of note in 0.13 is that React Components are no longer special objects that need to be created using a specific method (createClass()). One of the benefits of this change is that you can use the es6 class syntax, but also tons of other patterns work as well!

Below are a few examples creating React components that all work as expected using a bunch of JS object creation patterns (https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/this%20&%20object%20prototypes/ch4.md#mixins). All of the examples are of stateful components, and so need to delegate to React.Component for setState(), but if you have stateless components each patterns tends to get even simpler. The one major caveat with react components is that you need to assign props and context to the component instance otherwise the component will be static. The reason is

	var str = 'class ಠ_ಠ extends Array {constructor(j = "a", ...c) {const q = (({u: e}) => {return { [`s${c}`]: Symbol(j) };})({});super(j, q, ...c);}}' +
	'new Promise((f) => {const a = function* (){return "\u{20BB7}".match(/./u)[0].length === 2 \|\| true;};for (let vre of a()) {' +
	'const [uw, as, he, re] = [new Set(), new WeakSet(), new Map(), new WeakMap()];break;}f(new Proxy({}, {get: (han, h) => h in han ? han[h] ' +
	': "42".repeat(0o10)}));}).then(bi => new ಠ_ಠ(bi.rd));';

	try {
	eval(str);
	} catch(e) {
	alert('Your browser does not support ES6!')
	}

	var gulp = require('gulp');
	var sourcemaps = require('gulp-sourcemaps');
	var source = require('vinyl-source-stream');
	var buffer = require('vinyl-buffer');
	var browserify = require('browserify');
	var watchify = require('watchify');
	var babel = require('babelify');

	function compile(watch) {
	var bundler = watchify(browserify('./src/index.js', { debug: true }).transform(babel));

	<?php

	// Add role class to body
	function add_role_to_body($classes) {
	foreach (wp_get_current_user()->roles as $user_role) {
	$classes[] = 'role-'. $user_role;
	}
	return $classes;
	});
	add_filter('body_class','add_role_to_body');

	/**
	* jQuery alterClass plugin
	*
	* Remove element classes with wildcard matching. Optionally add classes:
	* $( '#foo' ).alterClass( 'foo-* bar-*', 'foobar' )
	*
	* Copyright (c) 2011 Pete Boere (the-echoplex.net)
	* Free under terms of the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
	*
	*/