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keyboardcowboy/orion
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Library of sass mixins and jade templates for rapid prototyping.

3.2.0(10y ago)127GPL-2.0+CSS

Since Apr 3Pushed 10y ago2 watchersCompare

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Orion Rapid Prototyping Library
===============================

[](#orion-rapid-prototyping-library)

Version 3.x

Orion is my own library of [SASS](http://sass-lang.com/) components and [Jade](http://jade-lang.com/) base layouts I've compiled over time in order to facilitate rapid prototyping for responsive and cross-browser compatible websites.

Libraries
---------

[](#libraries)

Orion ships with various 3rd party libraries:

### Included

[](#included)

Some libraries are included in Orion and are loaded automatically.

- [Bourbon](http://bourbon.io) for CSS3 and multi-vendor support (required for Orion to work)
- [Zen Grids](http://zengrids.com) for responsive grid layouts
- [Typeplate, v1.1.2](http://typeplate.com) for typography
- [Normalize, v2.1.3](http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css) for cross browser consistency

### Experimental

[](#experimental)

- [Foundation](http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/sass.html) components are being wrapped for easier implementation and to prevent unnecessary styles from being injected into the stylesheets.

How to Use Orion
----------------

[](#how-to-use-orion)

1. Drop Orion into your project.

    ```
     - mySassProject
       - orion
       - _vars.scss
       - _mixins.scss
       - styles.scss

    ```
2. Import the orion partial into your SCSS file.

`@import 'orion/orion';`

3. Add any custom variables and mixins, especially any variables that typeplate may use if you are including that.

    ```
     @import 'vars';
     @import 'mixins';

    ```
4. (Optional) Import starter styles

    ```
     @import 'orion/normalize';
     @import 'orion/typeplate';

    ```
5. Add your own styles.

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 62% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity68

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 57.9% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~19 days

Recently: every ~29 days

Total

7

Last Release

3993d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6067f952738d7618fb6fbcf8998f07451cd09ed5a0885513e1084ae416571303?d=identicon)[KeyboardCowboy](/maintainers/KeyboardCowboy)

---

Top Contributors

[![KeyboardCowboy](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1002715?v=4)](https://github.com/KeyboardCowboy "KeyboardCowboy (55 commits)")[![ChrisAlbrechtNREL](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1261218?v=4)](https://github.com/ChrisAlbrechtNREL "ChrisAlbrechtNREL (40 commits)")

---

Tags

csssassscssjadeprototypemixins

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