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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

Transitioning to using PostCSS


Up until now, we've used SASS to build our demo; granted, it's not a particularly complex one, but as I always say, we must start somewhere!

Our demo is a perfect example of how we can introduce PostCSS to provide replacements for the SASS variables and mixins we've used—for this, we will avail ourselves of three plugins, namely postcss-variables, postcss-mixins, and postcss-calc. The first two should be self-explanatory; the third is required in the replacement font mixin that we've used in our code.

Okay, enough chit-chat, let's get stuck in and begin to alter our code; we'll start with adding variable support.