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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

Summary


For anyone creating responsive sites, media queries are a core part of this process—PostCSS can easily help with creating the appropriate media queries that are needed for our projects. We've covered a number of key topics over the last few pages, so let's take a moment to consider what we've covered in this chapter.

For anyone creating responsive sites, media queries are a core part of this process—PostCSS can easily help with creating the appropriate media queries that are needed for our projects. We've covered a number of key topics over the last few pages, so let's take a moment to consider what we've covered in this chapter.

We kicked off with a quick review of standard media queries in CSS, before altering our code to use PostCSS as the basis for our queries. We then put this to good use in making images responsive, with a look first at the options available in PostCSS, before working through an example using PostCSS. We then switched to a common use of media queries for images...