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Branko Zivanovic
2,684 PointsHTML preprocessors and partials
Hey everone! At the moment, I'm working at my very first BIG project.Lately all I've been doing, were simple static web pages, but these days I'm looking for environment that is going to give me easy time when maintaining stuff.I'm using SASS with SMACSS and my CSS is organized, but my HTML is literally huge.Is there any way to break that document in smaller partials, like I would do with SASS partials? Thanks
2 Answers
Dustin Matlock
33,856 PointsHi Branko,
I've compiled a list of resources to help improve your workflow. They are from Treehouse and other places around the web.
- Getting Started with Grunt
- Up and Running with Grunt
- Improving Your Development Workflow with Yeoman
- Grunt-ify Your Front-End Development
- Giving Your Development More Grunt
- Gulp Basics
- Gulp and Web Components | The Treehouse Show Episode 76
- Episode 88: Gulp, Sketch 3, Bud
- Gulp for Beginners
- Grunt vs Gulp: Which One Should You Use?
- A Modern Web Designer’s Workflow by CSS-Tricks
Roy Penrod
19,809 PointsOn the modern web, you usually do that within a framework that uses the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern.
Basically, you use a template language to create "views" consisting of partial HTML files and then inject data into them.
If you know PHP, check out the Building Websites With PHP course. It shows a simple project using the Slim framework with the Twig template language.
Branko Zivanovic
2,684 PointsOkay, sounds like I'm going to dive into the PHP. Thank you
Roy Penrod
19,809 PointsYou don't necessarily have to do it with PHP. You could use any back-end programming language, including JavaScript.
You need to do it on the server because the browser needs the document to render it.
Roy Penrod
19,809 PointsRoy Penrod
19,809 PointsGood list, Dustin. Thanks for putting it together.