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Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

By : Alex Libby
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Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

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.
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Transitioning to using PostCSS plugins

We've seen that adapting code to use nesting is a simple principle, but the real art is getting the balance right, many developers fall into the trap of nesting everything in their code when using the technique for the first time.

With this in mind, let's explore how we can convert our code to using PostCSS. We'll start by installing the postcss-nesting plugin, which will perform most of the work for us:

  1. Fire up a Node.js command prompt, then change the working directory to our project area.
  2. At the command prompt, enter the following command, then press Enter:
    npm install --save-dev postcss-nesting
    
  3. Node.js will go away and install the plugin—it is ready for use when we see something akin to this screenshot:
    Transitioning to using PostCSS plugins
  4. With the plugin installed, we need to configure PostCSS to use it—open up a copy of gulpfile.js from the project area, ready for editing.
  5. We need to make a few changes—the first is to assign a variable that references...
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