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Mobile Web Performance Optimization

By : S. S. Niranga
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Mobile Web Performance Optimization

By: S. S. Niranga

Overview of this book

With users increasingly accessing the web on mobile devices, it’s crucial to make sure your website is built to seamlessly fit this radical change in user behavior. Mobile Web Performance Optimization is designed to help you do exactly that – it’s been created to help you build fast, and mobile-user-friendly websites and applications. Featuring guidance through a range of techniques and tools essential to modern mobile development, this accessible guide will make sure you’re delivering a seamless and intuitive experience for your website’s users. Begin by exploring the fundamental components of mobile web design and website optimization, before learning how to put the concepts into practice. Featuring cross-platform solutions, insights on developing lightweight yet robust UI, and insights on how to successfully manage data, this application development book takes you through every stage in the development process – so you can be confident that you’re asking the right questions and using the best tools in the most effective way. By the end, you’ll understand implicitly what it means to ‘build for performance’- you’ll be a more confident developer, capable of building projects that adapt to a changing world.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Mobile Web Performance Optimization
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

CSS preprocessors


If you are a frontend developer, you already know how important it is to write proper CSS for your website. Actually, CSS code doesn't have a direct relationship with performance optimization apart from style sheets' file size and duplicated classes. However, if you are planning to write code that is future-ready and easily maintainable, using a CSS preprocessor will ease your workload.

Of course, if you are working on a simple website, a preprocessor might not be required always. But, if you are working on a larger website and you have to deal with multiple style sheets and many CSS rules, a preprocessor will come in handy and will improve your code's quality.

In this section, I will briefly discuss SASS and LESS, the most popular CSS preprocessors available out there.

SASS and LESS

Both SASS and LESS are backward-compatible, and developers can easily convert their CSS files into LESS or SASS by just renaming the CSS file extension to .less or .scss, respectively.

LESS is based...