Web Con, University of Illinois Conference Notes Part 1.

Here are my notes from University of Illinois Web Con 2014. These are from the talk
"Life without a BS Foundation"
by Kianosh Pourian.

"Build a framework around your design not design around your framework."

Cons for using front end frameworks such as Twitter Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation:

• Not semantic
• Naming conventions not established/documented poorly
• Performance issues (bloat)
• Little to no file structure especially Sass project for Bootstrap
• Difficult to update
• Design implementation frameworks fall short
• Does not follow the DRY principals
• Overriding is very difficult and tons of extra code and uses little of the framework
• Editing the framework breaks any update
• Impossible to create a framework for everyone
• CSS is old and part of the issue
• Spend a lot of time learning someone else's code
• Not ideal for enterprise or large applications

"When building a site or web application, one must build it for success. Success means that small projects will evolve into large projects.

What to do:

• "Do the sh*t yourself"
• Write your own CSS
• Create Style Guides
• Use Sass or a preprocessor
• Follow OOCSS Principals
• Atomic Design
• Organize your code in modules in folders (each folder is a atom or module)
• The global import file should have comment of what the modules are being imported for
• Have a unified naming convention
• Folders helps packages modules for individual consumption
• Learn from frameworks such as Twitter Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation