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005 - Do I need a CSS framework?

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Do I need a CSS framework?

In this episode we discuss what we're looking for in a CSS framework and why.

Released: 10th Aug 2021.

What have we been working on?
Jake's week

(01:48)

  • Writing functional tests for some existing flows.
  • Debugging funky functional tests.
  • Working on some calendar functionality for prophunt.
  • Refactoring some of the UI and logic because started to hit some limits with the POC.
  • Sadly no deployments this week :( but its so easy so not that upset.
    • Greg's week

    (12:18)

    • Optimizing Nginx to mitigate DDOS attacks with fastcgi_cache and wget.
    • Maintaining an ancient system.
    • Adding a couple of features to energy logger (CCTV, VNC).
      • Do I need a CSS framework?

      (27:18)

      • Jake is writing way to much CSS, and it doens't feel productive.
      • What kind of CSS is Jake writing.
      • The downsides of picking up a framework.
      • Greg and Jake go through a list of frameworks:
      • Bootstrap
      • A tangent about Twitter's div problem.
      • Foundation
      • UIKit
      • Bulma
      • csszengarden.com
      • Materialize
      • Pure.css
      • Tailwind
      • NES.css & PaperCSS
      • Are there any design patterns we can use in CSS?
      • Common points between these framework.
      • Could using SCSS more help solve the problem we have?
      • What do we actually want when we're styling?
        • Pick of the Pod

        (87:40)

        • Linux utility: glances
        • Coding Adventure: Ant and Slime Simulations
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          Off By 1 PodcastBy Jake Lacey, Greg Bowler