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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 14. Preparing for the Future

Mastering CSS is an essential skill—the technology is continually evolving, so in order to succeed, we must keep abreast of changes. PostCSS is a great tool that allows us to not only use CSS rules of today, but work with rules of the future. In this chapter, we'll take a look at some of the CSS syntax that makes up what is frequently referred to as CSS4, and how we can provide equivalent support using current CSS3 classes.

We will cover a number of topics throughout this chapter, which will include the following:

  • Understanding some of the risks of supporting future CSS standards today

  • Exploring using cssnext to provide support for future CSS syntax

  • Working with some of the existing plugins to convert CSS4 standards into current CSS3 code

  • Examining how we can change existing plugins to add more support for new CSS4 selectors

Let's make a start!