peterjskaltsis / carb-css

A super-sweet way of writing your website styling rules.

Carb - A super-sweet way of writing your website styling.

Carb allows you to write CSS styling for websites with ease and less keystrokes. It's designed to be simple to understand for anyone, from designers to backend developers.

So, what does it look like?

define myColor #ffffff
define maxWidth 1000px

.glucose:
    max-width maxWidth
    padding 0 1rem
    margin 0 auto

    has_many:
        .hydroxyls:
            color myColor
        .oxygen:
            color red

.carb = .carbs:
    color myColor
    background-color #000000

.carb/before:
    color green

See more on the Carb website.

How do I use it?

Once you have Carb installed, just run the command:

$ carb --css your_carbs.carb

Also include the option: --output my_css.css to output to a custom filename.

This will convert any .carb file to a .css stylesheet.

That's all. Now go get you some carbs!

Installation

To install Carb, first navigate to the root and run:

$ mix escript.build

This will produce a carb executable, then move this to your /usr/local/bin folder.

On Mac, you can use the command:

$ sudo cp carb /usr/local/bin

Now you can run the transpiler via ./carb locally and if moved to the bin, you can use the carb command globally.

Extras

Please note, this is quite experimental and a lot of the source code is VERY messy and inefficient - hopefully improved if Carb proves useful.

This is transpiler is probably better suited in a different language - I'm currently experimenting with Haskell.

Documentation can be generated with ExDoc.

Current Version 0.1.0