Pattern Style Modifiers & KSS

[pattern-lab]

Pattern Style Modifiers & KSS

[dmolsen]

Writing this down while I'm thinking of it...

On a pattern detail page the default style could be chosen. A selected a style could be chosen via the code view pop-up or added via the address bar. For example:

http://patternlab.localhost/?p=atoms-button-star&s=stars-given

This would show the atoms-button-star pattern (as it does now) and give it the style stars-given. Essentially the style could be injected via JS so no need to create multiple pattern files. Unfortunately, I think the s request var would need to be added to History which is such a pain in the ass. It would make it easy to share a particular styling of a pattern with a client though.

[lewisnyman]

It might be worth looking into Holograph aka Hologram for PHP - https://github.com/sumpygump/holograph

It wouldn't introduce the Ruby dependancy that KSS would.

[dmolsen]

There is a PHP KSS library which I was looking at. I haven't fired it up yet though...

https://github.com/scaninc/kss-php/

But I'll also look at Holograph. Thanks for the heads up :)

[forjoyilive]

What did you end up deciding on, for this? We have a very small number of employees, and KSS would make sure Pattern Lab was up to date with the latest code and styles.

Edit: I see this is slated for an upcoming version. Whoops!

[lrobeson]

Can anyone provide specifics on how exactly to get KSS working with PL? I've messed around with the PHP-KSS plugin but I'm still unclear on how it's all intended to work together. Is the end result supposed to be a KSS styleguide and Pattern Lab, or everything inside PL?