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Overview of this book

Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook helps you to get most out of CSS3 and harness its benefits to create engaging and receptive applications. This book will help you develop faster and reduce the maintenance time for your web development projects by using Sass and Compass. You will learn how to use with CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap and Foundation and understand how to use other libraries of pre-built mixins. You will also learn setting up a development environment with Gulp. This book guides you through all the concepts and gives you practical examples for full understanding.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Getting Started with Sass

Introduction

Installing Sass for command line usage

Installing Compass

Using Sass on the command line

Using the Sass interactive mode and SassScript

Using the sass-gulp plugin with Gulp

Using Sass in the browsers

Writing Sass or SCSS

Choosing your output style

Working with partials

Writing your code in a text editor

2. Debugging Your Code

Introduction

Using CSS source maps to debug your code

Editing and debugging your Sass code in a browser

Commenting your code in the SCSS syntax

Building style guides with tdcss.js

Building style guides with the Kalei Styleguide

Using the @debug, @warn, and @error directives

Playing on SassMeister

3. Variables, Mixins, and Functions

Introduction

Using variables

Applying operations in Sass

Declaring variables with !default

Interpolation of variables

Leveraging mixins

Writing mixins with arguments

Duplicating mixins and name collisions

Creating pure Sass functions

4. Nested Selectors and Modular CSS

Introduction

Using nested selectors

Creating more intuitive code and making inheritance clear

Referencing parent selectors with the & sign

Using multiple & signs to refer to the parent selector more than once

Using the & operator to change the selector order

Utilizing the @extend directive

Using placeholder selectors with the @extend directive

Using the @extend directive together with the @media at-rule

Using the @extend directive with care

Emitting rules at the root of the document

Avoiding nested selectors too deeply for more modular CSS

Applying the OOCSS, SMACSS, and BEM methodologies

5. Built-in Functions

Introduction

Color functions

String functions

Number functions

List functions

Map functions

Selector functions

Introspection functions

Conditional assignments

Adding custom functions to Sass

6. Using Compass

Introduction

Extending Sass with Compass helper functions

Truncating Text with ellipses

Tuning vendor prefixes from Compass stylesheets

Adding Compass to an existing Sass project

Maintaining your applications with Compass

Using Bootstrap with Compass

7. Cross-Browser CSS3 Mixins

Introduction

Browser support

Using vendor prefixes

Cross browser CSS3 with Compass

The Can I Use database

Applying progressive enhancement

The -prefix-free library

Mobile first strategies

8. Advanced Sass Coding

Introduction

Using @if

Using @for

Using @each

Loops with @while

Creating a vertical rhythm for your website

Creating color contrasts automatically

Using icon fonts

Image sprites with Compass

Media queries with Breakpoint

9. Building Layouts with Sass

Introduction

Using a CSS Reset

Importing and organizing your files

Building a grid with grid classes

Creating responsive grids

Building a semantic grid with mixins

Applying the grid on your design

Integrating a vertical navigation menu in your layout

Creating grids with semantic.gs

Using Compass Layout Module

10. Building Grid-based Layouts with Susy and Sass

Introduction

Installing and configuring Susy

Defining containers and columns

Mobile first and responsive grids

Preventing subpixel rounding errors

Generating asymmetric layouts

11. Foundation and Sass

Introduction

Installing Foundation CLI

Integrating Foundation in a Compass project

Creating semantic grids with Foundation

Building off-canvas menus with Sass and JavaScript

Using Foundation 6 with WordPress and Sass

12. Bootstrap and Sass

Introduction

Downloading and installing Bootstrap

Customizing Bootstrap with variables

Configuring Bootstrap using variables

Making custom buttons

Making custom cards

Making custom navbars

Extending components using @extend

Using Bootstrap mixins and classes

Extending the mixins with your own mixins

Implementing semantic layouts with Bootstrap

Using WordPress with Bootstrap and Sass

13. Meeting the Bourbon Family

Introduction

Bourbon mixins for prefixing

Creating visual triangles

Using modular scales for typefacing

Semantic grids with Neat

Creating buttons with Bitters

Using the page navigation component from Refills

14. Ruby on Rails and Sass

Introduction

Hello world with Ruby on Rails

Explaining the main.css.scss file

Adding Compass to your Ruby on Rails setup

Using Susy with Ruby on Rails

Using Bourbon inside Rails

Integrating Bootstrap

Creating a RoR app with Foundation 6

15. Building Mobile Apps

Introduction

Installing the Ionic framework

Starting a new Ionic project using Sass

Customizing the buttons of your Ionic project

Setting up a Foundation App project

Using mixins to customize your Foundation App project

16. Setting up a Build Chain with Grunt

Introduction

Installing Grunt

Installing Grunt plugins

Utilizing the Gruntfile.js file

Adding a configuration definition for a plugin

Adding the Sass compiler task

Integrating Compass in the build chain

Installing Bourbon in the build chain

Automatically prefixing your code with Grunt

Getting Grunt watch for Sass, and LiveReload to work

Utilizing Yeoman

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Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook

By : Jobsen, Stuart Robson

Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook

By: Jobsen, Stuart Robson

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Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook

By : Jobsen, Stuart Robson

Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook

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