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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 6. Creating Grids

There are several different routes to take when creating basic site layouts, and in many cases, developers may decide to use CSS grids.

A classic example for those using CSS pre-processors, is of course, the SASS grid system, Bourbon Neat—a great package, spoiled by the need to install Ruby. We can easily fix this in PostCSS, by using one of several plugins available, without the need for extra dependencies. In this chapter, we'll take a look at what's available, and work through some examples, using a plugin for creating grids within PostCSS.

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

  • Introducing the basic principles of using CSS grids

  • Exploring the grid plugins available for use within PostCSS

  • Working through some simple examples using Bourbon Neat

  • Replicating pure SCSS examples using the PostCSS plugin, PostCSS-Neat

  • Adding responsive capabilities using the PostCSS-media-minmax plugin

Let's get cracking…!