There's plenty of buzz about CSS Grid, but from a distance, it can seem intimidating - especially for developers who don't often write CSS. Grid feels daunting for good reason: the Grid layout module added over 30 new properties, values, and units to CSS! While all of those additions are useful, we can optimize our learning: in this talk, we'll learn the 8 new pieces of Grid spec the will enable us up to build the vast majority of the layouts we'll use in real life! Around these 8 details, we'll start with a brief tour of CSS layout history, and finish with some practical Grid ProTips.