Banana CSS

🍌 The Brazilian CSS superset.

What is?

• Syntax abstractions for complex native CSS features.
• If you can, compile native CSS features like a pre-processor (ex: Custom properties and @import).
• Provide a simple abstraction for a Semantic Grid System with calc().
• Extra features (ex: @function).

How it works?

Table of contents

• How to install
• Command Line Usage
• The bananafile.json
• Module Usage
• Features
• Example
• Development
  • Code Style
  • Code Docs
  • Tests
• Versioning
• Contributing
• History
• License

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How to install

Verify if you have node and npm installed.

Command Line

$ npm install -g bananacss

Module

$ npm install bananacss --save

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Command Line Usage

Compile you .bnn file to .css

$ banana <input_path>

Watch for changes.

$ banana <input_path> -w

Output to dir when passing files.

$ banana <input_path> -o <out_path>

Show the project version.

$ banana --version

Show all available commands.

$ banana --help

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The bananafile

Create a file called bananafile.json in the directory where you will run the command $ banana and configure as need.

{
    "bnnSize" : true,
    "bnnPosition" : true,
    "bnnGradient" : true,
    "bnnVariable" : true,
    "bnnImport" : true,
    "bnnAlign" : true,
    "bnnWidth" : true,
    "bnnHeight" : true,
    "bnnCol" : true,
    "bnnRow" : true,
    "bnnBox" : true,
    "bnnFunction" : true,
    "compress" : false
}

All features have true as default value, except the compress.

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Module Usage

const inputBananaCode = '.a {bnn-size: 50px;}';
 
// Features injection
const config = {};
config.bnnSize = true;
config.bnnPosition = true;
config.bnnGradient = true;
config.bnnVariable = true;
config.bnnImport = true;
config.bnnAlign = true;
config.bnnWidth = true;
config.bnnHeight = true;
config.bnnCol = true;
config.bnnRow = true;
config.bnnBox = true;
config.bnnFunction = true;
config.compress = true;
 
const Banana = require('banana')(config);
 
// Output the css
const output = Banana.render(inputBananaCode);
 
console.log(output); // .a {width: 50px; height: 50px;}

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Features

• bnn-size property.
• bnn-position property.
• bnn-gradient property.
• bnn-align property.
• bnn-width property.
• bnn-height property.
• Intuitive box model with bnn-box property and inside/outside values.
• Customizable Grid System with bnn-row and bnn-col.
• Module Bundler with native @import syntax.
• Global variables with native custom properties syntax.
• Create reusable functions with @function.
• Configure your build with bananafile.json.
• Minify/Compress the generated CSS.

View all features docs here.

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Example

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Development

Code Style

Follow the Banana NodeJS style guide.

Validate the code style with ESLint:

$ npm run eslint

Code Docs

Generate code docs with JSDocs

$ npm run jsdocs

View code docs in out/index.html

Tests

Run the unit tests with mocha:

$ npm test

Calculate the coverage with Istanbul:

$ npm run cover

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Versioning

To keep better organization of releases we follow the Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 guidelines.

Contributing

Find on our issues the next steps of the project ;)
Want to contribute? Follow these recommendations.

History

See Releases for detailed changelog.

License

MIT License © Afonso Pacifer