All About CSS BEM!
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Scott and Wes dive into CSS BEM — What is it? Why do you need it? How does it work?
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The Show Notes!
01:00
- Minisode! What do you think?
- Meijer is the best!
05:00
- What is CSS BEM?
- What problems does CSS BEM solve?
- Block, Element, Modifier!
8:00
- What about really long class names?
9:00
- Use with Sass/Stylus
12:00
- What about styled components?!
15:00
- Listener Question: Do / should you use Dropbox for a website with Git and node_modules?
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- Scott's Twitter
- Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. |
| 0:06.0 | Strap yourself in and get ready. |
| 0:08.0 | Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to Syntax and in this episode we're going to be doing something a little bit different than normal |
| 0:17.2 | We're going to be doing a mini episode now over the course of the next three weeks we're going to be having two more many |
| 0:24.7 | episodes here as we sort of wrap up the year. So this is something we're going to |
| 0:29.2 | try out and maybe we'll continue later this idea of like a mini episode where it's a |
| 0:36.0 | quick topic that maybe we can't devote a full 60 minutes to or maybe it just |
| 0:40.4 | wouldn't make a good episode to devote a whole 60 minutes to. |
| 0:43.5 | It would bore you, yeah. |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.4 | So with me as always is Wes Boss. |
| 0:50.4 | How you doing today, Wes? |
| 0:51.4 | I'm doing great. I just finished like 20 minutes before this episode I finished the recording my CSS grid series and I'm super stoked about that it went really well |
| 1:01.7 | And I'm just about to head off on holidays after |
| 1:05.6 | we record a couple of these and are you headed anywhere like no just sitting on the couch and looking forward to it. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, I just, my family is mostly local, so just visiting them around town. |
| 1:20.0 | Nice, super cool. |
| 1:21.0 | What about you? |
| 1:22.0 | We're heading to Michigan. |
| 1:24.0 | First at, like 3 in the morning, like red eye with the baby. |
| 1:28.0 | It's going to be last. |
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