Nicolas Brassard-Ferron

Tailwind Aware Props

Type Developer
Date Thu. 4th
15:55 → 16:30
Location John W. H. Bassett Theatre
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Best described as a punk dad of two, Nicolas’s love for all things web began in 1998 when the Web gave him the power to post pictures of cute cats and promote his musical quintet.

A software engineering graduate and ex-TA of ÉTS Montréal, Nicolas has been a partner and the CTO of Deux Huit Huit since 2011. Cumulating more than 20 years as a professional developer, he oversees the design company’s technological innovations, DevOps, and quality of technological development.

 

Through methods rooted in performance, accessibility, usability, and digital security, he collaborates closely with the agency’s entire team. This results in the recognized Deux Huit Huit signature of flawless and performing programming — where fluidity meets performance and durability.

Nicolas Brassard-Ferron

About The Talk

Tailwind Aware Props

Tailwind is ubiquitous: its ease of use and speed make it an easy choice for dev teams that embrace the “atomic” CSS mindset. Tailwind JIT engine also generates only the required CSS class based on its tokenization of the provided source files.

 

One problem many devs encounter with Tailwind is that class names MUST be tokenizeable, i.e., they need to be identifiable in the source code whole. You can not use string concatenation or interpolation to create class names or pass theme values as parameters. These constraints lead to code repetition and harder-to-read code, which violates many software design patterns (the open-closed principle being one of them).

 

At Deux Huit Huit, we had a silly idea: What if Tailwind could understand our svelte and typescript code? What is required to design and implement such a system?

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  • Isabel Moranta
  • Amelie Maia
  • Victor Costa
  • Simon D’haenens
  • Mathieu Ducharme & Jérémy Minié
  • Claudio Guglieri
  • JP Burcks & Mia Pratevito
  • Parker Peterson
  • Adriano Esteves
  • Rhodi Iliadou & Peter Ha
  • Filippo Cipriani
  • Pablo Stanley
  • Franco Arza & Clément Roche
  • Ali Hosseini
  • Josh Kirk
  • Diana Varma
  • Vitaly Friedman
  • Femke van Schoonhoven
  • Nicolas Brassard-Ferron
  • Hilary Hayes
  • Romain Prache
  • Travis Neilson
  • Brent David Freaney
  • Jonathan Morin
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Isabel Moranta

Isabel Moranta

Art Director Locomotive CAN
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Amelie Maia

Amelie Maia

Creative Technical Architect Jam3 CAN
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Victor Costa

Victor Costa

Designer & Creative Developer Independent CAN
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Simon D’haenens

Simon D’haenens

Lead Designer DOGSTUDIO/DEPT® USA
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Mathieu Ducharme & Jérémy Minié

Mathieu Ducharme & Jérémy Minié

Partner & Technical Director & Lead Front-end Dev. Locomotive CAN
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Claudio Guglieri

Claudio Guglieri

Head of Design Opal Camera USA
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