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 applicaions
"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
