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@kwsites/cms-common
Advanced tools
Utilities depended upon by many of the @kwsites/cms-* modules.
Initialise the module in your app.js before any other @kwsites/cms- modules:
apostrophe({
modules: {
'@kwsites/cms-common': {},
// ... other @kwsites/cms-* modules
}
});
The @kwsites/cms-common module uses the moog bundle option to improve some of the apostrophe internal modules to add the
features other modules then depend upon. Full details below:
@kwsites/cms-common adds variables and mixins for use in the .less files of your application or the modules it imports.
Most importantly, this module adds the variables used in layouts, to override these values set their values in your own
project as lib/modules/apostrophe-assets/public/css/kwsites/mixins.less:
/* pixel widths to use to determine the @media queries for mobile, tablet, desktop
and not-mobile (which covers both tablet and desktop) */
@website-width: 1200px;
@mobile-site-width: 414px;
/* padding to use in components, the small/large padding variants are set as being
a half / double the default padding size unless explicitly specified */
@padding-size: 1rem;
@padding-size-s: @padding-size / 2;
@padding-size-l: @padding-size * 2;
FAQs
Common tools used for the apostrophe cms plugins from kwsites
We found that @kwsites/cms-common demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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