melange-css
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Melange - CSS Utility Framework and Design System for Developers
MelangeCSS is a utility-style CSS framework to allow you to start styling pages right away without having to write much, if any, CSS. It provides a basic design system based on a set of spacings, font sizes, and colors that is suitable for any basic app.
Install
Include this in your .html files' <head> section:
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/melange.min.css"/>melange-css is available as an NPM module, so installing it will bring the .css file into your node_modules
directory:
npm install --save melange-cssFrom there, including it in your app depends on how your app is built.
Who Melange is For
- Teams where members produce entire solutions, end-to-end ("full stack").
- Teams where design is presented as a treatment, leaving finer details to the team itself.
- Apps where the team controls the markup.
Who Melange is NOT For
- Teams where a designer presents a picture of an app that the team must achieve with precise fidelity.
- Apps where markup is generated and the team has little control over the classes
- Teams where there is no core competency in CSS and rely heavily on frameworks like Bootstrap or Bulma.
Use
Melange is a spiritual successor to Tachyons and is somewhat similar to TailwindCSS, though different in ways we'll get to.
Melange is a series of classes you can apply to your HTML. Each class typically sets one CSS property to one predefined
value. For example, dib sets display to the value inline-block.
You would then use these classes in whatever combination you like to achieve the design you need. For example, here is how you might create a button:
<a href="#" class="ba br-3 ph-3 pv-2 tc">Click Me!</a>Those terse, seemingly unreadable classes do the following:
- There is a border on all sides
- The border radius is the third size on a scale from 1 to 5
- The horizontal padding is the third size on a scale from 1 to 7
- The vertical padding is the second size on a scale from 1 to 7
- The text is centered
Perhaps you can tell which class achieves which?
See the reference docs or the component gallery to get started.
About this Folder
This folder's contents are almost entirely generated from the melange-cli folder. Generally avoid editing files in
here.