Papercss
The Less Formal CSS Framework
Overview:
The content provides a detailed guide on using PaperCSS framework for styling web projects. It includes instructions on downloading, customizing, and contributing to the framework.
Features:
- Quick-start: Offers multiple options for getting started with PaperCSS including downloading the latest release, cloning the repo, or installing with npm or yarn.
- Content of the framework: Provides both compiled CSS and minified CSS versions. Users can choose specific components to import and play with original SCSS source files.
- Documentation: Directs users to the official documentation website for stable features from the master branch and upcoming features from the develop branch.
- Customizing: Easily customizable by cloning the repo, making changes to .scss files, particularly in core/_config.scss, and building new CSS files with npm run css:build.
- Contributing: Welcomes contributions to the open-source project and provides a beginner-friendly guide on forking the repo, installing dependencies, creating new branches, writing code, and ensuring code quality.
Summary:
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
- Stylelint
Stylelint is a modern linter for CSS that helps you avoid errors and enforce consistent styling conventions. It provides rules for detecting errors and warnings, and can be configured to match your specific project's requirements.
