CSS in Depth

Chapter 10. Pattern libraries

This chapter covers

• Building a pattern library to document your modules
• Incorporating a pattern library into your development process
• Applying a CSS First approach to writing styles
• Safely editing and deleting CSS
• Utilizing CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap

After you start writing your CSS in a modular way, it’ll begin to shift the way you approach the task of authoring web pages and web applications. At first, the pages you build may not seem different. But at some point, you’ll go to put together a particular page, and you’ll find that you have already created many of the modules it requires. For example, if you need a media object, or a dropdown or a navigation menu, and you’ve already created one, you already ...