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Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

By : Alex Libby
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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

Exploring the conversion process


Cast your mind back to Chapter 10, Building a Custom Processor, for a moment.

The key theme of that chapter was bringing together a number of plugins we covered throughout the preceding chapters, to create what would become our processor. So far, all of the plugins used were based around pure PostCSS, so they wouldn't be able to compile raw SASS code.

We took a brief look at the CSStyle library, as a possible means of getting around this—it's a great library for producing clean code using BEM principles, but it requires that code is written using a specific format. Ordinarily, there is nothing wrong with this at all—every developer's utopia should be to produce clean, efficient code, right?

Yet there is just one small problem, reality! It wouldn't be practical to rewrite a large, complex e-commerce site to use CSStyle without an enormous amount of work; it would require a lengthy transition period to effect such a change. It's not impossible, but using BEM-style...