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Labs are hands-on coding projects that you build along with Tonya as she explains the code, concepts, and thought processes behind it. You can use the labs to further your code knowledge or to use right in your projects. Each lab ties into the Docx to ensure you have the information you need.

Each lab is designed to further your understanding and mastery of code. You learn more about how to think about its construction, quality, maintainability, programmatic and logical thought, and problem-solving. While you may be building a specific thing, Tonya presents the why of it to make it adaptable far beyond that specific implementation, thereby giving you the means to make it your own, in any context.

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Neat Breakpoints

There are various strategies available to you for handling the media query breakpoints including these options, which all do the same thing: The advantage to setting a new breakpoint in the _breakpoints.scss file is you make all changes to your breakpoints in one place. Now that we’ve integrated media queries into the styles at the component level, this technique means you are not searching through all of the partials to find where to change what you need. Therefore, using the Neat function new-breakpoint() allows you to be more efficient which will save you time in working with your new codebase. […]

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Apply BEM to Screen Sizes Variables

For the screen sizes, let’s use this naming convention: $screen-size–smallest. The name is now more clear and it complies with BEM. Whew.

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Refactor Colors

Did you notice that we are repeating hex colors within the color variables file? Why? That’s not efficient and it’s redundant. Instead, let’s specify the colors at the top of the file and then use those variables within the configuration.

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Apply BEM to Color Variables

Just as we did with the typography, let’s apply BEM naming convention to the color variables, e.g. $button–hover-background-color.

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Apply BEM to Typography Variables

Let’s start in the typography variables file and convert the current variable names to the BEM methodology. The convention we will use is: $primary-nav–font-size, where the block is $primary-nav and the modifier is the CSS property font-size. Within your IDE or editor, you will do a global search and replace. Follow along with me to ensure you have the right naming; although really this is your codebase, therefore, you can name these variables any way you want.

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Introducing BEM

Let me introduce you to Block Element Modifier (BEM) methodology. The variable naming convention that we’ve been doing is a modification of BEM along with camelCase. This naming may cause the linters to yell back at us. Therefore, we are going to refactor the naming to comply with BEM. First though let’s walk through and look at what it is. While you may wonder why we are doing this, it’s good to stop and consider the quality of your code and then reassess. It’s a natural trajectory as you are advancing towards craftsman. Embrace refactoring as it helps you to […]

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Git Commit

Let’s commit your changes and then push them to GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. We’ll walk through the current commit in GitHub too to see what it looks like and how to read it. Here is where you can find the last version of the entire lab in the Know the Code’s GitHub repository: Get on Github.

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Media Queries

In this episode, you will migrate in all of the media queries and finish up the base module.

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Elements Part 2

Let’s talk about how to automatically calculate the different font sizes using the base font size and a Bourbon mixin called modular-scale. You can see an example of how I do it in my Hello child theme. When using modular scale, you have various predefined variables available to you from the Bourbon library. You can check those out here. Next you’ll refactor the box sizing to use the mixin box-sizing().

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