Hi Joel, I have a quick and dirty implementation of a 960-ish grid system<https://github.com/JeremS/cljss-grid>using a DSL similar to garden If you want to take a look.
On Friday, April 26, 2013 1:01:44 AM UTC+2, Joel Holdbrooks wrote: > > 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 > <cli...@dreisbach.us<javascript:> > > 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 >> <cjhold...@gmail.com<javascript:>> >> 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...@sevenolives.com <javascript:>> 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 clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> >> your first post. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> >> 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+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> >> >> >> 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 clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your >> > first post. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> > 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+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> > 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 clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> 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+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> 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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