Twin Cities Code Camp

Nate Taylor

An Introduction to Semantic 2.0

by Nate Taylor

Sat, Apr 16, 2016
Room: Rapson 45
Time: 9:45

Is CSS and layout a mystery to you? When you read HTML are you able to understand what will be displayed without constantly looking up classes or documentation? If you’re like me, these are problems you run into when doing the view layer of your application. CSS classes become meaningless combinations of letters that don’t really seem to express intent.

However, there’s a library to help with that. Semantic UI is a framework that aims to create rich UIs “using human-friendly HTML.” Gone are the days of col-md-3. Instead, our HTML will have classes like “three column wide”. But it’s more than that. Semantic UI has a wide variety of elements, collections, and views that can make any application pop, all while following sane patterns. Throughout this talk, we’ll look at several key UI components, and talk about the underlying principles of Semantic UI. After leaving the talk, you’ll be bale to install Semantic UI (hint: it’s really simple) and get up and running on your next project.

About the Author

Nate Taylor is a software developer, speaker and Pluralsight author. He's worked on projects ranging from 1 developer for an internal application, to large teams writing revenue generating applications. He's worked for a Fortune 50 company, and he's worked for startups. He's developed software in C++, Java, .Net and JavaScript. Over the past 15 years he's developed a passion for TDD, clean code, and professionalism. In his spare time, Nate trains Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and tries to wrangle a herd of cats, rabbits and other pets at home.