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Building your own framework

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Building your own framework

- [Instructor] So what happens if you decide that a framework is right for your workflow, but you never really find just the perfect one? Well, good news, there's nothing that says you can't create your own. Remember that most frameworks evolve out of the best practices and development standards of agencies or individual developers. If you're an experienced front-end developer and you already have a few projects under your belt, I'm guessing that you already have some starter files or code snippets laying around that you reuse from one project to another. Let's talk about how those files could be moulded into your own custom CSS framework. First, you need to take time to examine your own processes and determine exactly what is standard on each of your projects. What do you find yourself repeating over and over again, or reusing, or even have to rewrite? Once you've determined those aspects, you'll have a good idea about what should form the foundation for your framework. For some…

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