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Creating a Living Style Guide with Sass and Vanilla JavaScript

by Karen Menezes

This course will teach you how to create a custom style guide with global helpers and reusable components that you can recycle across different projects.

What you'll learn

Long-term software projects tend to suffer from multiple issues, including inconsistent branding, code bloat, and poor documentation. In this course, Creating a Living Style Guide with Sass and Vanilla JavaScript, you will gain the ability to architect a style guide that tackles these issues at a core level and bridges the gap between design and development. First, you will learn how to identify the building blocks of a design system. Next, you will discover how to translate these building blocks into modular styles and reusable components. Finally, you will explore how to add stateful styles for user interaction, as well as accessibility for users with different needs. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of style guide driven development needed to build a lightweight, custom style guide.

About the author

Karen Menezes is a freelance UI developer and author who specializes in CSS. Karen works towards an open, adaptive web, and loves the implicit challenges of responsive web development where performance and user experience are indispensable.

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