Pre-West Prep: Priyatam Mudivarti

April 04, 2015

Talk: Responsive Grids with Garden & Clojurescript

Priyatam Mudivarti's talk at Clojure/West is about creating responsive grids with Garden.

Background

Most web shops use a so-called CSS Preprocessor, which means a language that transpiles to CSS. These preprocessors typically add variables, rule nesting, and a few more features to fill out the holes in CSS.

Garden is a Clojure library which converts well-formed Clojure data structures into CSS. What this means is that your Clojure (and ClojureScript) code can generate the CSS dynamically, with the full richness of Clojure behind it. Variables come free, because Clojure has variables. But Clojure also has lambdas, which is not possible in any preprocessor I've ever seen.

At the same time, making a responsive grid is a huge undertaking. Lots of projects promise to do the hard work for you. If it could be done easily using a more powerful language, we would not have to rely so much on these frameworks. Priyatam Mudivarti is going to talk about how to make responsive grids using several techniques. He has created a nice repo containing an exploration of several types of grids.

About Priyatam Mudivarti

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