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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


Animating content is an almost de facto part of building modern sites – this can be something as simple as providing subtle effects on form labels, right through to providing a complex background slider. We've covered a lot of useful tips and tricks throughout this chapter, so let's take a moment to review what we've learned.

The theme for this chapter has been about making the transition (sorry, pun intended!) from using vanilla CSS or SASS to PostCSS; we kicked off with a quick recap of the types of animation available.

This was swiftly followed by a look at some of the methods available for starting to make the transition away from standard CSS, such as using prebuilt animation libraries, or using CSS3 transitions. We then switched to covering how similar animations would look within SASS, so we can compare use of libraries such as Animate.css, before starting the switch to using PostCSS.

We started this part of the journey by exploring the various plugins available, before converting...