"Grund" is "foundation" in Swedish. This is my own SCSS foundation I start out new projects from. It's built with Compass in mind, but that dependency can be easily pulled out.

Since I'm tired of setting up the same file structure for every new project. I find myself copying over the same files and snippets all over again. Having these resources in a repository is great for collaboration, learning and developing good practices.

Building modular reusable CSS is hard. Thanks to SCSS we are able to do some more fancy work, but when developing a semi-large project it's important to have structure and a way of thinking.

I've written a post on the subject some time ago which you should read: "Bringing order to CSS".

There are a couple of ways:

I've created a RubyGem for easy installations of Grund. You didn't think I'd create a reusable CSS foundation without a quick way of putting it into a new project, did you?

gem install grund
grund install

It'll pull down the files in this repo and put it in the current directory. Run grund help for brief info. The repository for the CLI client is located here: github.com/johanbrook/grund.

Download the ZIP file with the files.

git clone git://github.com/johanbrook/grund.css.git

For development, forking, etc.

The sass-globbing gem lets you include whole trees of Scss files. Se _main.scss. Thus, all files in the directories common, partials, and views will be auto imported in _main.scss.

Install sass-globbing with

gem install sass-globbing

• common. I usually put common stuff in .. yeah, common. It may be general, site wide things like styles for buttons, forms, headings, modal boxes, etc.
• lib. In here, styles which potentially can be re-used in different projects should live. General helpers, mixins, font definitions, animations, etc.
• partials. Here I put styles for different regions of the site, such as header, footer, articles, etc.
• views contains a Scss file for each major view of the site. Could be structured in nested directories, thanks to sass-globbing.
• viewports contains files with media queries. Must be explicitly imported in _main.scss.

Contributions, tips and suggestions are welcomed! CSS is a living thing – new best practices develops, and while I'd like to keep the bloat down, it would be great to learn how others are doing it.

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