rattanakchea/primitive

⛏️ A minimalist front-end design toolkit built with Sass for developing responsive, browser-consistent web apps.

Devin UI

Devin UI is forked repo from https://github.com/taniarascia/primitive. I'm very inspired by Tania's work and her writing.

A minimalist front-end design toolkit built with Sass for developing responsive, browser-consistent web apps. Primitive also provides helpful, browser-consistent styling for default HTML elements - buttons, forms, tables, lists, and typography.

Installation

TODO

• [] provide npm install for devin-ui package. Can be install from directly using Github.

CSS quick start (easy)

• Download the stylesheet or use the CDN URL: https://unpkg.com/primitive-ui/dist/css/main.css.
• Save the stylesheet and link to it in the head of your project.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="" />

It's all set to go and your HTML elements will be given sensible default styling.

Sass integration (recommended)

The beauty of Primitive is the ease with which you can create unique designs in a beautiful, simple system. Simply clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/taniarascia/primitive.git
cd primitive

And run a Sass watch on the project.

npm run sass

Now you can begin modifying variables in variables.scss. This file will define your colors, typography, sizes, breakpoints, buttons, borders, and more. Define all your variables here to keep your project organized.

You can view dist/test.html or templates/template.html to see some example elements as you make changes.

Motivation

Primitive was originally built by Tania Rascia to understand how a responsive CSS framework works from scratch, and how to use Sass, the CSS preprocessor.

Primitive makes it incredibly simple to set the foundation for a sustainable styling system. You get the freedom to design your site however you want, with a solid, easy-to-understand underlying framework.

Many websites have been built with Primitive, such as taniarascia.com, Laconia, Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba!, Shaw's Crab House, Tokio Pub, Krispy Kreme Pacific Northwest, and more.

Acknowledgements

• Dave Gamache for building Skeleton CSS, the original inspiration for building Primitive and understanding responsive CSS.

Contributing

Please feel free to fork, comment, critique, or submit a pull request.

Original Author

• Tania Rascia

License

This project is open source and available under the MIT License.