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Flexlay

Flexlay is a CSS-only library to simplify common use cases regarding CSS Flexbox properties. Heavily inspired by Angular Material 1 Layout System, flexlay allows you to setup flexbox layouts through simple attributes in your HTML.

Usage

NPM: npm install flexlay --save
CDN: https://unpkg.com/flexlay@latest/dist/flexlay.min.css

Layout Model

The easiest way to use this library is to think in the layout model it provides (powered by flex of course), based on 3 core concepts:

Define row or column layouts (provided by fl-layout)
Define layout alignment of its childs (provided by fl-layout-align)
Define flex behaviour of the childs (provided by fl-flex)

Thorough documentation will be available in the short future. Use the Material system as a temporary reference.

Responsive support

All attribute selectors have responsive support, initially following Material Design Breakpoints:

Add a -<breakpoint name> suffix to rules you only want targeting a specific screen size
Add a -gt-<breakpoint name> suffix to rules you want targeting screen sizes greater than a specific breakpoint.

Most work is laid out to support custom breakpoints but is yet to be finished. It needs enough support requests to be actually implemented.

Developer Notes

Contributors are welcome! I started out this library out of need to use the Material Layout outside Angular 1, and I ended up using it in all my projects now. I want you to find the value it provides as I do, and contribute to make it better.

The project is sourced in SCSS and commented enough to understand how it works. Open a PR or Issue to help or ask how things work.