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Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

By : Alex Libby
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Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

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.
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Adding shortcuts with Rucksack


Mention the word Rucksack, and one might be forgiven for thinking we were about to go on a journey or holiday—whilst the desire might be there, there are more practical matters to attend to first!

This said, working with PostCSS can easily be seen as going on a journey; this is particularly true when working with plugins. One of the plugins (or to be more accurate, packs) that you will very likely come across when working with PostCSS is Rucksack (see the play on words there?). This useful pack, available from http://simplaio.github.io/rucksack/, contains a number of plugins that have been linked together to provide additional functionality that we can use when compiling style sheets using Rucksack, such as these examples:

  • Alias: This is available at https://github.com/seaneking/postcss-alias, this plugin allows us to create shorthand CSS properties.

  • Clearfix: As a developer, I am sure you will be familiar with the clearfix hack: this plugin by Sean King provides...

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