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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

Optimizing the output


The PostCSS system will quite happily play nicely with other plugins, be they Gulp-based, or using another task runner such as Grunt or Broccoli. This opens up a real world of possibilities, limited only by your imagination! There is one small but important point, though—it makes it crucial that we not only optimize our processor output (as we have done), but also fine tune it to ensure that we've added functionality that suits our needs.

So, what can we add? Well, here's a starter for ten: how about compressing images? Another common task relates to adding responsive content—we've already covered this earlier in the book with the postcss-responsive-type plugin. We could take that further, by adding a task that resizes images automatically to different sizes; we can then use these as appropriate in a responsive site.

Ultimately, it is up to you—as time goes by and you get more accustomed to using PostCSS, then it is likely that you will find yourself using some plugins...