It's funny you should bring that up! I've actually been working on extracting the grid system from Bootstrap and modular scale from Foundation. But it's mostly been tinkering.
* I am sorely tempted to give this a try.* Please do! If I come up with something I'll be sure to share a Gist. On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Clinton Dreisbach <clin...@dreisbach.us>wrote: > One interesting thing you could do, given both Garden and > ClojureScript, is package CSS frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap or > Zurb Foundation as a Clojure library. I am sorely tempted to give this > a try. > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Joel Holdbrooks <cjholdbro...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Murtaza, > > > > Thanks for having a look at the library. I'll try to answer you > questions as > > best as I can. > > > > > > How does Garden compare to other pre processors such as sass and less? > > > > There are some similarities with Garden and other CSS preprocessors. I've > > tried to bring over the ones I found most useful when using them. Nested > > selectors and declarations, parent selector references, and unit > arithmetic > > are all currently available to stylesheet authors. > > > > The big difference and, in my opinion, the big win is you can build your > > stylesheets with regular Clojure. This gives you a lot of power and > freedom > > you won't find anywhere else (AFAIK). To name just a few benefits: > > > > There's no file parsing or interpretation step. It's just data > > transformation. > > There's no need for any sort of special @mixin syntax or macros, you can > use > > Clojure function. > > There's no need for an @include directive thanks to clojure namespaces. > This > > can help you organize your stylesheet in ways (I think) are much cleaner > and > > less surprising than SASS and other preprocessors. > > Thanks to Clojure, Garden (potentially) has clearer syntax than CSS > which, > > if you look closely, can be pretty random in some places. > > > > WIth regard to the third point, if you've ever tried using the SMACSS > > approach to stylesheet authoring with a preprocessor like SASS, you can > end > > up with an explosion of files and tons of @include directives. It's not > fun, > > it's hard to manage, and it's difficult to see where code is coming from > - > > especially when using 3rd-party libraries. > > > > Also can I use it in my clojurescript projects ? I mean does it have any > > java lib dependencies that would prevent it? > > > > It does have one small dependency on java.net.URI but I need some time to > > think about whether or not it would be worth dropping. As far as using it > > from a ClojureScript project, what sort of use case are you considering? > > > > What is the workflow when using Garden? > > > > My experience using Garden is probably close to others at this point. > It's > > kind of funny in that regard. I'm building a tool and at the same time am > > learning how to use it. Personally, I create a namespace for my "core" > > stylesheets and separate namespaces for things like utilities and so > forth > > (ie. (ns me.css (:require [me.css.button :as button])) . Then I have a > call > > to function that compiles and saves the stylesheet at the bottom of the > > "core" stylesheets. Since I develop with Emacs and nREPL this means all I > > have to do is reload the file and the CSS is "refreshed". > > > > It isn't the best approach, but Garden is still very young and I haven't > > thought about how a standardize the build process. But I would > definitely be > > open to any thoughts regarding that. A Leiningen plugin would be awesome! > > > > > > I hope these answers are helpful. Please continue to experiment with the > > library and express your thoughts! > > > > Thanks, > > > > Joel > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Murtaza Husain > > <murtaza.hus...@sevenolives.com> wrote: > >> > >> Joel, > >> > >> Thanks for the lib. Its great and I plan to use it in my projects. > >> > >> How does Garden compare to other pre processors such as sass and less ? > >> > >> Also can I use it in my clojurescript projects ? I mean does it have any > >> java lib dependencies that would prevent it? > >> > >> What is the workflow when using Garden ? If I am using Sass, I would > >> create a .scss file, and the sass daemon would watch over any changes > to the > >> file and compile it to .css. > >> > >> As I understand garden is generating css when called with the fn/macro > >> (css [...]). Would it make sense to have a similar workflow like above; > >> where a leiningen plugin watches for any .garden files and compiles > them to > >> .css files ? Or is there a better workflow that I am missing? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Murtaza > >> > >> > >> On Tuesday, April 23, 2013 2:42:55 AM UTC+5:30, Joel Holdbrooks wrote: > >>> > >>> As of today, Garden is officially out of alpha and in to beta! > >>> > >>> The library now sports media queries (via meta data) and parent > selector > >>> references (ie. "&hover"). With these new features it is now possible > to > >>> build more sophisticated stylesheets bringing us a step closer to > having a > >>> viable CSS alternative in Clojure. > >>> > >>> Over the course of the next few weeks, I plan to continue improving the > >>> library by adding "missing" features and functions to make the library > as > >>> powerful as possible when it's release as 0.1.0 stable. > >>> > >>> Now more than ever, I would like to encourage others in the community > to > >>> reach out with suggestions and code review. This my first "real" > Clojure > >>> library and after only six months with the language I'm sure it could > >>> benefit greatly from both of these things. > >> > >> -- > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> Groups "Clojure" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > >> your first post. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > >> --- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > >> Google Groups "Clojure" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/xbFU2prTxlY/unsubscribe?hl=en > . > >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Joel > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Clojure" group. > > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your > > first post. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Clojure" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/xbFU2prTxlY/unsubscribe?hl=en. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Joel -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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