flexboxgridjs

Converts the styles defined in flexboxgrid to vanilla javascript for use with various css-in-js libraries such as glamor and aphrodite.

The module offers a 12 column grid that uses the flexbox specification to specify columns as flex children with rows as flex parents.

Media Queries

Name	Max-Width
Phone	48em
Tablet	64em
Desktop	75em

The em units are calculated with respect to the font size of the parent element while the rem units are computed using the font-size of the root elements. A font size of 16px is usually provided for the root of the application.

The api consists of two container elements, a full width container-fluid as well as a responsive fixed width container.

The row style represents a flex-parent with support for wrapping content to the next line, to reverse the order of items within a row, use the rowReverse style. A row will not grow beyond it's usual size but can shrink upto the width specified for it.

There are several ways of specifying columns using flexboxgridjs, use col to specify equal width columns that expand to occupy the width of a row. To specify columns with a flex-basis (i.e. min-width of the column beyond which it cannot shrink) use col function and pass it a column size argument.

There are also modifiers that allow a column to only apply for one of the media queries specified above using the colPhane, colTablet and colDesktop classes. To specify an offset use the colOffset function and it's counterparts for each media queries as you did ith col.

flexboxgrid also comes with certain modifiers:

• reorder elements using first and last, has additional styles similar to col which apply only for the given media query.

• align items on the vertical axis using top, middle and bottom

• align items on the horizontal axis using start, center and end.

• justify space between columns, maximize it using between, minimize it using around.

To see examples head over to flexboxgrid homepage.

Additional Information

All properties for a style are camel cased as most styling solutions require/support them.

Most css-in-js provide inline media queries that are specifiedwithin the style of the element like this:

const container = {
  marginRight: 'auto',
  marginLeft: 'auto',
  [phone]: {
    width: containerSm
  },
  [tablet]: {
    width: containerMd
  },
  [desktop]: {
    width: containerLg
  }
}

Preprocessors offer mixins for building parameter based style output, we accomplish this using functions:

export function col (columnSize) {
  if (columnSize == null) {
    return {
      ...colBase,
      flexGrow: 1,
      flexBasis: 0,
      maxWidth: '100%'
    }
  }

  if (isNaN(columnSize)) {
    throw new Error('Column size must be a number')
  } else if (columnSize < 1 || columnSize > 12) {
    throw new Error('Column size must be a number within the range 1-12')
  }

  const baseWidth = 100 / TOTAL_COLUMNS
    const flexBasisNum = baseWidth * columnSize
    const flexBasis = `${flexBasisNum}%`
    const maxWidth = `${flexBasisNum}%`
    const result = {
      ...colBase,
      flexBasis,
      maxWidth
    }

  return result
}

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