A key part of PostCSS is exploring the ever-increasing array of plugins available for the PostCSS ecosystem; in some respects, it can be likened to a journey of discovery. This is no different for single plugins, or those available within packs—we've already seen that many of these packs are made up of the same plugins that are available individually! Let's take a moment to review what we've learnt.
We kicked off our journey with a look at working with plugins that can help save time with writing—these can either be those that allow us to write in shorthand, or those that add missing styles, based on styles we specify in code. These also included some plugins that help provide fallback support for older browsers.
We then moved onto working with the postcss-short
plugin, as an example of how we can reduce development time, before moving on to explore the Rucksack suite of plugins that can help add some of the missing elements we may need to use in CSS. To explore how Rucksack works...