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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

Creating a site using Neat and PostCSS


Remember our demo with a Japanese theme from earlier, in Creating an example with Bourbon Neat? It's a simple demo, using Bourbon Neat to help create our grid. The downside, though, is, of course, the dependency on SASS!

Well, we can fix that: PostCSS has a plugin available that mimics Bourbon Neat, but is written entirely in JavaScript, so there is no dependency on SASS. It's easy to install and use, over the next few pages, we'll work through the changes required to switch to this plugin.

First though, let's get it set up:

  1. We'll begin by extracting a copy of the Tutorial32 folder from the code download that accompanies this book. Save this to the root of our project area.

  2. Copy the sample pre-compile.css file to the src folder at the root of our project area.

  3. Copy the gulpfile.js, samplesite.html and package.json files to the root of our project area. These should replace any existing versions that are present.

  4. Next, we need to install two plugins, although...