PiGrid

What
CSS-Grid/Flexbox grid system - Demo.

A SCSS setup utilising a few loops and a bunch of settings to generate up to 12 grid-row elements, all nestable, using inline classes. Utilises BEM throughout. A newly added <header> uses named grid-template-areas, seperate from the rest of the grid.

Inspired by Foundation/Bootstrap , PiGrid layout consists of an outer container, then row, then inner pod/s. Add the relevant classes and the layout will flow accordingly.

How
Outer container elements are wrapped around the complete markup or individual blocks; width is modified via class modifiers: --mini, --midi, --maxi. There's an optional outer wrapper class for full width/height usilising vw/vh attributes.

Inner row blocks indicate the divisible aspect of the content pods e.g.: pigr__row pigr__row--N- where N is the grid fraction (fr), for the child pods.

Content pods use the following: pigr__pod pigr__pod--N - where N is the grid fraction (fr) denoted on the parent row.

For example, when using pigr__row pigr__row--6, the inner pods could be:

• pigr__row pigr__pod--1 and pigr__row pigr__pod--5
• 3x pigr__row pigr__pod--2
• 3x pigr__row pigr__pod--1 and pigr__row pigr__pod--3
• pigr__row pigr__pod--2 and 1x pigr__row and 1x pigr__row pigr__pod--3

etc...

Omitting the pod size leads to the elements auto-sizing in the available space, based on the sizing dictated by the parent row element. For example within pigr__row--6:

• 4x pigr__pod and 1x pigr__row pigr__pod--2

QA:
Tested iteratively from ground-up in all decent modern browsers, with Firefox and Chrome device emulators used extensively throughout. Mobile testing done in Android: Firefox & Chrome and iOS: Safari. Tablet devices mostly tested in emulators.

The new Edge Chromium renders perfectly. Edge 16+ tested intermittently in Browserstack, needs more (in progress).
Currently breaks a bit in IE11 - am working on this.
Nothing pre-IE11.

Webpack setup

For convenience this PiGrid example is built into tris-webpack-boilerplate for static multi-page web builds.

The PiGrid specific files are in:

• ./src/styles/
• ./src/index.html

Everything else is related to the webpack build.

You'll need git and node.js on your computer before running, then:

1. git clone https://github.com/powellian/pigrid your-project-name

2. cd your-project-name && rm -rf .git

3. npm install

4. npm start - fires up localhost:8080 and live reloading for development

5. npm run build creates a ./dist folder with all website assets optimized and compressed.

Compiling - vanilla SASS style

To compile PiGrid to a compressed .scss file just run the following command: sass src/index.scss route/to/wherever/some-filename.scss --style compressed

This outputs a compressed .scss file (with .min automatically appended), plus a source map file. Currently the whole system compiles down to 10k compressed, 16k uncompressed (for uncompressed just omit the --style flag).