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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 8. Creating PostCSS Plugins

Plugins, plugins…we can't escape them; by now, you will have seen that they are an essential part of developing within PostCSS. Its modular nature is built entirely around plugins, and is how we can streamline our processing through selective use of these plugins.

In this chapter, we'll cover the anatomy of a PostCSS plugin and take a look at some pre-built examples, before embarking on the construction of a simple plugin that we can then test and submit for inclusion in the PostCSS system.

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

  • Discovering how plugins can be used to extend PostCSS

  • Examining the architecture of a standard plugin

  • Creating a PostCSS plugin using the plugin boilerplate

  • Building some example plugins

  • Testing and submitting your plugin for inclusion in the PostCSS plugin library

  • Exploring some examples of existing plugins available for PostCSS

Let's make a start…!