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Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

By : Alex Libby
Book Image

Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

By: Alex Libby

Overview of this book

PostCSS is a tool that has quickly emerged as the future of existing preprocessors such as SASS and Less, mainly because of its power, speed, and ease of use. This comprehensive guide offers in-depth guidance on incorporating cutting-edge styles into your web page and at the same time maintaining the performance and maintainability of your code. The book will show how you can take advantage of PostCSS to simplify the entire process of stylesheet authoring. It covers various techniques to add dynamic and modern styling features to your web pages. As the book progresses, you will learn how to make CSS code more maintainable by taking advantage of the modular architecture of PostCSS. By the end of this book, you would have mastered the art of adding modern CSS effects to web pages by authoring high performing, maintainable stylesheets.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Mastering PostCSS for Web Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 11. Manipulating Custom Syntaxes

Although many developers have moved on from using preprocessors to using PostCSS, it is important to note that PostCSS is not a replacement, just an alternative way of preprocessing CSS styles. To help with the transition, we're not forced to learn a new syntax. Using a handful of plugins, we can take advantage of the speed of PostCSS, while still using syntaxes that we're accustomed to, such as Less, SASS, or Stylus.

In this chapter, we'll take a look at the plugins that make this possible, and work on some simple examples that show you how using a custom syntax that we're all familiar with is still possible when using PostCSS.

This chapter will cover the following technical topics:

  • Introducing custom syntaxes

  • Implementing examples of custom syntax plugins

  • Parsing CSS

  • Converting content to strings with the API

  • Adding highlighting support to our code

Let's make a start!