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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

Summary


For many developers or designers, using grid-based development forms a key part of their working process. Many will be familiar with the likes of Bootstrap or Bourbon Neat; we can easily replicate the same functionality within PostCSS. Let's take a moment to review what we've covered throughout this chapter.

We kicked off with a brief introduction to using grid-based development, before swiftly moving on to beginning the transition process to using PostCSS. Our first stop was a look at automating the compilation process so we can make the switch to using Gulp.

Next up, we then took a look at making the switch from using pure SASS to using the SASS-based grid system, Bourbon Neat; we covered how easy it is for Bourbon to build the structure of our grid system with minimal effort.

We then moved on to exploring the plugin options available from within PostCSS, before making the transition to using the postcss-neat plugin. We then explored how easy it is to refine our Gulp task process...