sturobson / primer-css

The base coat of GitHub. Our internal CSS toolkit and guidelines.

Primer CSS

Primer is the CSS framework that powers GitHub's front-end design. Primer CSS includes 23 packages that are grouped into 3 core meta-packages for easy install. Each package and meta-package is independently versioned and distributed via npm, so it's easy to include all or part of Primer within your own project.

Packages

The Primer CSS repo is managed as a monorepo that is composed of many npm packages.

Core Packages

Package	Version
primer-css Includes all 23 packages
primer-core
primer-product
primer-marketing

Install

This repository is distributed with npm. After installing npm, you can install primer-css with this command.

$ npm install --save primer-css

Usage

The source files included are written in Sass (SCSS). You can point your Sass include-path at your project's node_modules directory and import it like this:

@import "primer-css/index.scss";

You can import individual Primer modules by installing them with npm, for instance:

$ npm install --save primer-navigation

Then, you would import the module with:

@import "primer-navigation/index.scss";

Or, while you're figuring out which modules you need, you can import them directly from the primer-css packages directory like so:

@import "primer-css/packages/primer-navigation/index.css";

Build

For a compiled CSS version of this module, an npm script is included that will output a CSS version to build/build.css. The built CSS file is also included in the npm package.

$ npm run build

Documentation

You can read more about primer in the docs.

License

MIT © GitHub