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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

Exploring the grid plugins in PostCSS


Throughout this chapter we've used SASS with Bourbon Neat to produce our grids. It's a perfectly valid option to use, but is not the only one available. We might have preferred to work with something like Bootstrap or the Semantic Grid System instead; it's ultimately down to our personal choice as to which grid system we use, based on our preferences and requirements.

Up until now, we've focused on using Neat. This is largely due to familiarity and ease of use. There will come a point, though, when we need to make the transition to using PostCSS—the beauty is that there is a dedicated plugin available for using Neat within PostCSS, at https://github.com/jo-asakura/postcss-neat. It's not the only grid system plugin available for PostCSS, so let's take a moment to cover the others that can be used:

  • Grid: Downloadable from https://github.com/andyjansson/postcss-grid, this plugin splits some of the configuration between PostCSS and the stylesheet, which helps...