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Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

By : Alex Libby
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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

Setting up our environment


To get the best out of this chapter, we need to set up an installation of WordPress—for the uninitiated, there are two ways to achieve this:

For the purposes of this book, we will use the former—to get hold of WordPress, head over to http://www.wordpress.org and hit the blue Download WordPress button on the right side of the screen (near the top).

I will assume our version of WordPress has been installed locally under C:\wamp\www\wordpress, using your local web server of choice, following the instructions available at https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress. My preference is to use WAMPServer (available from http://www.wampserver.com/en), but if you would like to use a different web server or...