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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 12. Mixing Preprocessors

Throughout the book, we've explored using PostCSS, and seen how we can build a more efficient preprocessor that meets our needs, without the extra baggage of standard preprocessors. Hold on though—doesn't it take time to build a processor? How do we manage the transition?

No problem, enter the Pleeease library! Throughout this chapter, we'll use the power of Pleeease to combine both preprocessors and postprocessors into one process, mixing existing systems such as SASS, Less, and Stylus. Over the next few pages we take a look at some examples, and show you how easy it is to harness the power of Pleeease.

This chapter will cover the following technical topics:

  • Examining the benefits of using the Pleeease library

  • Installing and configuring the library

  • Exploring some of the features of Pleeease

  • Compiling code using Node or the command line

  • Setting up a configuration file

  • Converting a WordPress installation and testing the results

Let's make a start!