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What the FlexBox? – A free 20 video course to learn CSS Flexbox

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Re: What the FlexBox? – A free 20 video course to learn CSS Flexbox

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Post by vanderZwan »

As someone who has little direct experience with this part of webdev (other than aligning paragraphs once in a while for really basic static text sites), I have to wonder: is the fact that flexbox requires a 20-part video course a sign of it being:

- a broken mess,

- a less broken mess than what came before it,

- an inevitable consequence of trying to solve an inherently difficult and complicated problem?

- some combination of the above?

Either way, nice of Wes Bos to provide such a tutorial, will have a look.

Re: What the FlexBox? – A free 20 video course to learn CSS Flexbox

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Post by wesbos »

vanderZwan wrote: post #2

As someone who has little direct experience with this part of webdev (other than aligning paragraphs once in a while for really basic static text sites), I have to wonder: is the fact that flexbox requires a 20-part video course a sign of it being: - a broken mess, - a less broken mess than what came before it, - an inevitable consequence of trying to solve an inherently difficult and complicated problem? - some comb…

Author here - it's just 20 videos broken apart into each topic so when you need to come back to reference something, it's quick.

Is flexbox hard to learn? Yes, but it's because it's such a powerful layout tool. There are tons of gripes about Flexbox, but I've found that if you just put in a few hours to learn it, you are going to be way ahead in your CSS and layout game.

We haven't had to learn anything hard in CSS for years and now it's time. Hunker down and get at it!

Re: What the FlexBox? – A free 20 video course to learn CSS Flexbox

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Post by mbrock »

vanderZwan wrote: post #2

As someone who has little direct experience with this part of webdev (other than aligning paragraphs once in a while for really basic static text sites), I have to wonder: is the fact that flexbox requires a 20-part video course a sign of it being: - a broken mess, - a less broken mess than what came before it, - an inevitable consequence of trying to solve an inherently difficult and complicated problem? - some comb…

You can't draw any such conclusions from the existence of a series of 20 short tutorial videos. I could make 20 videos about how to use ls.

Re: What the FlexBox? – A free 20 video course to learn CSS Flexbox

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Post by dizzy3gg »

yuribit wrote: post #6
tayodore wrote: post #5

I found https://cvan.io/flexboxin5/ immensely useful when trying to get my head round flexBox.

I prefer this one http://flexboxfroggy.com/

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Re: What the FlexBox? – A free 20 video course to learn CSS Flexbox

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Post by madeofpalk »

vanderZwan wrote: post #2

As someone who has little direct experience with this part of webdev (other than aligning paragraphs once in a while for really basic static text sites), I have to wonder: is the fact that flexbox requires a 20-part video course a sign of it being: - a broken mess, - a less broken mess than what came before it, - an inevitable consequence of trying to solve an inherently difficult and complicated problem? - some comb…

> - an inevitable consequence of trying to solve an inherently difficult and complicated problem?

Flexbox is actually relatively simple for the common use cases (absolute centering, distributing leftover space between elements etc).

If you have more complicated layouts, there's a lot more to the Flexbox spec that will help you out.

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