Family.scss: Simplifying Complex Selectors Management within SCSS
With the technological advancements that the internet world is experiencing, Web designing and development has turned more complex, particularly when working with a preprocessor like SCSS. Family.scss is a cutting-edge Github project that addresses this complexity, offering an altogether different approach to managing selectors, aiming to make this task more manageable and efficient.
Project Overview:
Family.scss is an ingenious set of SASS mixins with the objective of making scss and the handling of the complex selectors more straightforward. The project aims to provide a better reader experience. Complex cocoon-like css structures can be replaced with few lines of scss code, without compromising the readability aspect of it. The target audience of Family.scss primarily consists of web developers and web designers who are looking for ways to simplify selector management, making their work quicker, efficient, and more streamlined.
Project Features:
The primary highlight of Family.scss is that it provides mixins to handle nth-child'ified elements, in a refined and much simpler to read. With Family.scss, you can generate selectors like - "Select all the elements except the first 3", "Select the last child", "Select all the elements after the third", and many more. This project is all about simplifying stylesheets and making them more readable while adhering to the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle.
Technology Stack:
Family.scss project utilizes the power of SCSS, a stylesheet language that is compiled into Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). The use of CSS makes it more understandable and maintainable. This technology has been chosen as it builds on the strengths of CSS but adds in some extra features like variables, nesting, and mixins, which are commonly associated with traditional programming languages.
Project Structure and Architecture:
The project structure is kept simple and lucid to ensure easy understanding by developers. It contains mixins that allow the hassle-free creation of complex selectors in SCSS. Mixins are defined in the main SCSS file, and the compilated version is available in the 'dist' folder, which allows instant use of the mixins. There are a set of simple commands provided to modify the parameters and instantly generate different selectors.
