Markup, CSS, and Project Structure Best Practices
Taylor Lovett
We’re proud to announce the release of Markup, CSS, and Project Structure sections for our Engineering Best Practices.
When it comes to CSS and Markup, our industry offers a vast landscape of choices and philosophies, illustrated by the number of frameworks and preprocessors available. While our Front End Engineering team always pushes the boundaries of these platforms, our Best Practices set a standard bar for the techniques, functionality, tools, and libraries we use.
As we focus on practical business application of technology, our philosophies are guided by a mandate to ensure consistent, reliable, and predictable experiences for website visitors. Many CSS attributes and HTML5 features are amazing, but are also dependent on unreliable polyfills for compatibility with some popular web browsers. In addition to avoiding known technical pitfalls, standardizing our tools, style, and structure improves efficiency, collaboration, and overall quality of work.
Consistent with our support for an open web, our Engineering Best Practices are open and available on Github. We encourage any and all contributions!