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Professional CSS3

By : Piotr Sikora
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Professional CSS3

By: Piotr Sikora

Overview of this book

CSS is the preferred technology to design modern web pages. Although CSS is often perceived as a simple language, applying modern styles to web pages with CSS and maintaining the code for larger websites can be quite tricky. We will take you right from understanding CSS to designing high-quality web pages in CSS3. We'll quickly take you through CSS3's features, and show you how to resolve common issues so you can build your basic framework. Finally, you will learn about code architecture and CSS methodologies used in scalable apps and you'll explore the various new features of CSS3, such as FlexBox, to help you create the most modern layout methodologies. By the end of the book, you will be a master at creating pure CSS web pages and will know sophisticated web design techniques, giving you an edge over other web designers.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Professional CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Minifying CSS


Minification is a process that should be done mainly for production code. It's going to be hard to work on minified files during the development process, so we need to minify our code for production code only. It is possible to enable minification in SASS or Compass compilation by adding a proper flag (--compressed). We will additionally use an external tool for this, to minify the code after the uncss process. What we need to do now is to install gulp-clean-css:

npm install --save gulp-clean-css

Now, minify the result of the uncss process. We will create a prod directory in which we will store our final version of the project. Now let's import gulp-clean-css:

cleanCSS = require('gulp-clean-css')

Let's create the sections needed in gulpfile.js:

gulp.task('clean-css-production', function () {
   return gulp.src('prod/css/main.css', {read: false})
       .pipe(rimraf({force: true}));
});

gulp.task('sass-production',['clean-css-production'], function () {
   return gulp.src('src/sass...