Vanilla Framework is a simple extensible CSS framework, built using Sass and is designed to be used either directly or by using themes to extend or supplement its patterns.

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You can link to the latest build to add directly into your markup like so, by replacing the x values with the version number you wish to link.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/vanilla-framework-version-x.x.x.min.css" />

Pull down the latest version of Vanilla into your local node_modules folder and save it into your project's dependencies (package.json) as follows:

npm install --save-dev vanilla-framework

Now ensure that your SASS builder is including modules from node_modules. E.g. for Gulp:

// gulpfile.js
gulp.task('sass', function() {
  return gulp.src('[your-sass-directory]/**/*.scss')
  .pipe(sass({
    includePaths: ['node_modules']
  }))
});

Then reference it from your own Sass files, with optional settings:

// Optionally override some settings
$color-brand: #ffffff;

// Import the theme
@import 'vanilla-framework/scss/build';

// Add theme if applicable

If you don't want the whole framework, you can just @include specific parts - e.g. @include vf-b-forms.

The simplest way to run Vanilla framework is to first install Docker (Linux users may need to add your user to the docker group), and then use the ./run script to build the site:

./run build  # Build the CSS into the ./build/ directory
# or
./run watch  # Dynamically watch for changes to the Sass files and build automatically

The examples directory contains example markup for each component of the framework.

To view these examples in the browser, run the local server with:

./run serve

Once the containers are setup, you can visit http://0.0.0.0:8101/vanilla-framework/ in your browser to see the examples.

The documentation available at https://docs.vanillaframework.io is built from the markdown files located in the /docs/ folder. You can also build the HTML documentation pages locally as follows:

snap install documentation-builder  # Install the documentation-builder tool
documentation-builder --base-directory docs --output-path docs/build

Now open the docs/build/en/index.html file in your browser.

Keep up to date with all new developments and upcoming changes with Vanilla.

• Follow us on Twitter @vanillaframewrk
• Read our latest blog posts at Canonical Blog
• Talk to the team in IRC on irc.freenode.net and join channel #vanilla-framework

Code licensed LGPLv3 by Canonical Ltd

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