CSS - Scalability

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This is a mirrored zone from the [davidtheclark/scalable-css-reading-list](https://github.com/davidtheclark/scalable-css-reading-list) repository. Part of the Awesome list collection.

Articles

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Newest on top, oldest on bottom. (A note for you outside the US: my dates are month/day/year format.)

8 rules for a robust, scalable CSS architecture
, by Jarno Rantanen (10/16/2016)
More Meaningful CSS
, by Jonathan Snook (5/17/16)
CSS and Scalability
, by Adam Morse (3/24/16)
Can CSS Be Too Modular?
, by Harry Roberts (3/8/15)
Side Effects in CSS
, by Philip Walton (3/3/15)
Used and Abused -- CSS Inheritance and Our Misuse of the Cascade
, by Micah Godbolt (8/25/14)
Enduring CSS: writing style sheets for rapidly changing, long-lived projects
, by Ben Frain (8/7/14)
Challenging CSS Best Practices
suggesting a unique approach (all utility classes) the author calls Atomic CSS -- by Thierry Koblentz (10/21/13)
Atomic Design
, by Brad Frost (6/10/13) -- which isn't really about CSS code, exactly; but so many people have found it a valuable way to think about frontend component architecture that it fits in well with this list.
MindBEMding - getting your head around BEM syntax
, by Harry Roberts (1/25/13)
CSS Architecture
, by Philip Walton (11/16/12)
SOLID CSS
, by Miller Medeiros (9/10/12)
Shoot to kill: CSS selector intent
, by Harry Roberts (7/17/12)
The open/closed principle applied to CSS
, by Harry Roberts (6/21/12)
Keep your CSS selectors short
, by Harry Roberts (5/15/12)
The single responsibility principle applied to CSS
, by Harry Roberts (4/28/12)
About HTML semantics and frontend architecture
, by Nicolas Gallagher (3/15/12)
An Introduction to Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS)
, by Louis Lazaris (12/12/11)

Authoring Frameworks & Longer Readings

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Atomic CSS
, Yahoo! Inc.
CSS Modules
, by Glen Maddern
CSS Guidelines
, by Harry Roberts
Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS
, by Jonathan Snook
SUIT CSS Documentation
, by Nicolas Gallagher
Multilayer CSS
, by Robert Haritonov
Object Oriented CSS Wiki
by Nicole Sullivan

CSS Styleguides

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These styleguides articulate conventions and guidelines for authoring scalable CSS.

(I'm distinguishing styleguides from what I would call pattern libraries, which are references created to document and exemplify existing styles rather than guidelines for the authoring of the styles. Other people often use the term styleguide to refer to both or either of these reference types. I think pattern libraries are less specifically about scalable CSS, and more about a scalable frontend design and development workflow; so I'm not including resources related to pattern libraries.)

Workflow Overviews

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Articles providing overviews of real-life CSS methodologies for production sites and apps of significant scale. Although these articles generally don't include principles that are not better explained in the articles and longer reads above, they are so pragmatic and concrete that they are important reads in their own right. Newest first.