Authoring Frameworks & Longer Readings

• Atomic CSS, Yahoo! Inc.

Talks

• Atomic CSS (Slides), Thierry Koblentz (2015)

Articles

• 8 rules for a robust, scalable CSS architecture (⭐2.4k), by Jarno Rantanen (10/16/2016)

CSS Styleguides

• Google

Articles

• More Meaningful CSS, by Jonathan Snook (5/17/16)

Articles

• CSS and Scalability, by Adam Morse (3/24/16)

• Can CSS Be Too Modular?, by Harry Roberts (3/8/15)

Authoring Frameworks & Longer Readings

• CSS Modules, by Glen Maddern

Talks

• Managing CSS Projects with ITCSS, Harry Roberts (2014)

Talks

• React: CSS in JS, Christopher Chedeau, a.k.a. Vjeux (2014)

Articles

• 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.

Articles

• Side Effects in CSS, by Philip Walton (3/3/15)

CSS Styleguides

• Trello

Workflow Overviews

• How we do CSS at Ghost, by Paul Davis (11/4/14)

Talks

• Thinking Beyond "Scalable CSS", Nicolas Gallagher (2014)

Talks

• CSS module system in Google+ (⭐1.5k) (slides), Shubhie Panicker (2013)

Workflow Overviews

• Refining the Way We Structure Our CSS at Trello, by Bobby Grace (11/11/14)

• Medium's CSS is actually pretty f***ing good, by Jacob Thornton (8/28/14)

• Codepen's CSS, by Chris Coyier (7/30/14)

• CSS at Lonely Planet, by Ian Feather (7/24/14)

• Github's CSS, by Mark Otto (7/23/14)

Articles

• MindBEMding - getting your head around BEM syntax, by Harry Roberts (1/25/13)

Authoring Frameworks & Longer Readings

• CSS Guidelines, by Harry Roberts

Articles

• The single responsibility principle applied to CSS, by Harry Roberts (4/28/12)

Articles

• Used and Abused -- CSS Inheritance and Our Misuse of the Cascade, by Micah Godbolt (8/25/14)

Articles

• Challenging CSS Best Practices -- suggesting a unique approach (all utility classes) the author calls Atomic CSS -- by Thierry Koblentz (10/21/13)

Authoring Frameworks & Longer Readings

• Multilayer CSS, by Robert Haritonov

• Object Oriented CSS Wiki (⭐6.2k) by Nicole Sullivan

Articles

• Enduring CSS: writing style sheets for rapidly changing, long-lived projects, by Ben Frain (8/7/14)

• 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)

• 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

• Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS, by Jonathan Snook

• SUIT CSS Documentation (⭐3.8k), by Nicolas Gallagher

CSS Styleguides

• Bootstrap

• SUIT (⭐3.8k)

• Github

• Medium

Talks

• Adaptation and Components (slides), Nicolas Gallagher (2014)

• CSS is a Mess, Jonathan Snook (2013)

• Architecting Scalable CSS (slides), Harry Roberts (2013)

• CSS for Grownups (slides), Andy Hume (2013)

• Object-Oriented CSS (slides), Nicole Sullivan (2009)