Maxim Shirshin is a professional front-end developer with 10+ years of experience with complex web-based services and products for desktop and mobile. For the last several years, Maxim has been working on various Yandex services such as Yandex home page and Yandex.Direct. He recently relocated to Berlin where he works as a front-end team lead at Deltamethod GmbH. Maxim remains a consultant with Yandex and keeps himself involved with the BEM community.
To make the right choices for your project, you need to start with a general approach, or methodology. You probably already know of BEM, one of those methodologies developed by a big company, but Maxim Shirshin decided to try BEM on a smaller scale. He wanted the same benefits that Yandex gets from BEM: code sharing, a live style guide, scalability, faster development. He is now convinced that BEM applies to small projects as well. Maxim has written down his findings, in case you find them useful!
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In this article, Maxim Shirshin will introduce us to the history of the BEM methodology. BEM is a collection of ideas and methods. Companies and teams can integrate it into their existing workflow gradually, finding out what works best for them, using a unified language that consists of powerful terms: blocks, elements, modifiers. Learn about the challenges that a big company faces when gradually building an entire ecosystem of services with an ever-growing team of developers.
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