This document describes requirements for tools, style structure, and how should be built and support the website design.
Tools:
- Design
- Figma
- Code Tools:
- SCSS
- Webpack
- HTML template preprocessor (like blade etc.)
Good WordPress boilerplate theme with correct structure https://roots.io/sage-9/
Design methodology: Aatomic Design Methodology
Design
Major points:
- research current website, define week places and goals
- build a prototype in figma or in another prototype builder
- build base styles and pages
- A designer must provide and support style guide page where will be described common elements, scaffolding, base widgets, and feature pages should be based on this style guide, old pages must mutate views with a style guide.
- After implementation design and style guide in figma, the developer should realize the style guide in code. It means The website must have the protected page where will be rendered all widgets, buttons, etc. with description, MAN. (Good example it is Bootstrap documentation).
Style folder structure based
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This document describes requirements for tools, style structure, and how should be built and support the website design.
Tools:
- Design
- Figma
- Code Tools:
- SCSS
- Webpack
- HTML template preprocessor (like blade etc.)
- Yarn
Good WordPress boilerplate theme with correct structure https://roots.io/sage-9/
Design methodology: Aatomic Design Methodology
Design
Major points:
- research current website, define week places and goals
- build a prototype in Figma or another prototype builder
- build base styles and pages
- A designer must provide and support a style guide page where will be described common elements, scaffolding, base widgets, and feature pages should be based on this style guide. Old pages must mutate views with a style guide.
- After the implementation design and style guide in Figma, the developer should realize the style guide in code. It means The website must have the protected a page where will be rendered all widgets, buttons, etc. with description, MAN. (Good example it is Bootstrap documentation).
Style folder structure-based.
themes/current_theme/ # → Root of your Sage based theme
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└── resources/ # → Theme assets and templates
└── assets/ # → Front-end assets
├── config.json # → Settings for compiled assets
├── build/ # → Webpack and ESLint config
├── fonts/ # → Theme fonts
├── images/ # → Theme images
├── scripts/ # → Theme JS
└── styles/ # → Theme stylesheets
├── common(core) # → Fonts, global styles, variables, base scaffolding
├── mixins # → Custom mixins and functions
├── components # → Buttons, Link etc. base elements
├── widgets # → Base widgets like section, modal, forms, header, footer etc.
├── layouts # → Page layouts based on widgets with uniques styles for page
└── layout_name # → Folder with layout styles
├── widgets(blocks) # → Unique layout widgets or overwtires of common widgets
└── layout_name.scss # → layout with imported layuot widgets
├── lib # → Imported styles from npm packages and their overrides
└── main.scss # → Main file where imported all files (mixins, node modules, lib, core, components, widgets, layouts)
CSS classes names
CSS classes must be named with a sense of content and completeness. For example: .product-card,
.product-card-logic_elem, .btn.btn-small.btn-success,
etc.
Almost the same style as in BEM. Blocks are .block
, elements are .block__elem
, but modifiers are .block-modifier_name
instead of .block_property_value
.
tag ID in camel case #teamListForm
Cascade usage
Allowed for:
- To define a context. E. g. a block should look differently on light and dark backgrounds: it can be achieved using a modifier or a cascade (adding context class to body tag or parent block).
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- To use semantic classless tags in user-generated content (articles, comments, etc.).
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- (Very rarely) when you are sure, you will never put a nested block with the same tag.
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Mixins
Kind of OOCSS. It’s a normal block but intended to extend another (primary) block, to add some look or behavior.
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States
It’s like a modifier, but you can use it with any block or element. Very useful in JavaScript.
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JS-hooks
It would help if you didn’t use CSS classes used to style content to select elements in JavaScript. (Except states.)
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Wrappers
Don’t imply any semantics. Use it for appearance only.
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Caveats
- Preferred classes order in HTML: blocks, mixins, JS-hooks, states:
<div class="upload-files scrollable js-files is-hidden"> |
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Single tag structure
styles
| folder width tag styles specific for that tag and wrapped in the tag selector |
widgets | folder with tag widgets files that included to main.tag. All widgets have unique styles files in the tag styles folder that are included in the tag |
main.tag | root tag file |
Style properties order
- content
- z-index
- position
- top
- right
- bottom
- left
- overflow
- float
- display
- visibility
- opacity
- width
- height
- margin
- padding
- border
- outline
- box-sizing
- list-style
- background
- font
- line-height
- text
- letter-spacing
- white-space
- transition
- animation
- color
- cursor
- @include
Images
- Add method to theme common controller, which will be detecting client device and return optimal image size for fast page loading via
wp_get_attachment_image( $attachment_id, $size, $icon, $attr );
- Integrate WEBP images
Icons
To add a new icon to the project use https://icomoon.io/app/
Javascript
This is a good example of how to build js for the WordPress: https://roots.io/sage/docs/theme-development-and-building/, this method is a part of the Sage boilerplate theme.
The main idea is to build and fire javascript by native body classes, which uniques every page, page entity, etc.
ACF
Styleguide: https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/best-practices-designing-custom-fields/