Xavier Harrell xavierharrell

How not to scale css

Several years ago I got curious about how css worked at scale. When I first started out, there weren’t nearly as many learning resources as there are now. CSS zen garden was amazing, at the time it showed how much you could change a design without altering the html.

In the beginning, that’s what people sold me as a feature. By writing css, you could make a change one place and have it propagate everywhere. In principle this sounds pretty good. I’m lazy so I like doing things one time. But eleven years later, my experience on both large and small teams is that this is the most terrifying thing about css.

https://twitter.com/thomasfuchs/status/493790680397803521

In the past few years a lot of very smart people have been thinking more about CSS and this has lead to some fascinating discussions around how to build ‘scalable’ ui and how that relates to CSS. When I first started to think about scalability I naturally started to read every blog post and watch every tech talk I could get

How to set up Gulp with an ExpressionEngine project

I freaking love working with technologies like Grunt and Gulp, and wanted to share how to get my current EE front-end workflow set up. With a few tweaks, this can also be used with virtually any other sites (I've used it with Laravel, static sites, Craft, etc).

Install Node.js

If Node is not yet installed on the machine, it will need to be installed

Install Gulp (if needed)

Templating in EE vs. Craft CMS.

Here are a few common tasks you might do in your templates, as they would be written in ExpressionEngine vs. Craft CMS.

Git

Global Settings

Related Setup: https://gist.github.com/hofmannsven/6814278
Related Pro Tips: https://ochronus.com/git-tips-from-the-trenches/
Interactive Beginners Tutorial: http://try.github.io/
Git Cheatsheet by GitHub: https://services.github.com/on-demand/downloads/github-git-cheat-sheet/

Reminder

Press minus + shift + s and return to chop/fold long lines!

Required:

Stash 2.3.4 (beta) or later

Stash template directory

	/layouts/
		standard.html

	/partials/

listing.html

	# the EnumUtils code was nicked from Wayne Hartman (http://blog.waynehartman.com/articles/84.aspx)
	Add-Type -TypeDefinition @"
	using System;
	using System.Reflection;
	using System.ComponentModel;

	public enum MockarooType
	{
	Boolean,
	City,

	{
	{exp:low_search:results query="{segment_3}" limit="10"}
	{if count == 1}
	"search_keywords": "{low_search_keywords}",
	"total_results": {total_results},
	{/if}
	{if count == 1}
	"results": [
	{/if}
	{

	# Colorful Bash Prompt, inspired by "Extravagant Zsh Prompt"
	# Screenshot: http://img.gf3.ca/d54942f474256ec26a49893681c49b5a.png
	# A big thanks to \amethyst on Freenode

	if [[ $COLORTERM = gnome-* && $TERM = xterm ]] && infocmp gnome-256color >/dev/null 2>&1; then export TERM=gnome-256color
	elif infocmp xterm-256color >/dev/null 2>&1; then export TERM=xterm-256color
	fi

	if tput setaf 1 &> /dev/null; then
	tput sgr0

	set :application, "example.com"

	server "209.61.142.41", :app, :web, :db, :primary => true
	set :deploy_to, "/srv/www/#{application}"
	set :user, "root"

	default_run_options[:pty] = true

	set :repository, "ssh://git@bitbucket.org/mattfordham/capistrano.git"
	set :scm, :git

	{embed="_layouts/index"}
	{preload_replace:channel="work"}

	{exp:switchee variable="{segment_2}" parse="inward"}

	{!-- Work listing --}
	{case value=""}
	{exp:stash:set_value name="title" value="Our Work \| Viget"}
	{exp:stash:set_value name="body_class" value="page-work page-primary page"}
	{exp:stash:set_value name="body_page" value="work"}