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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

Transitioning to using PostCSS-Neat


Making the transition to PostCSS is relatively straightforward. We need, of course,to update our compilation process to remove links to SASS, and introduce our PostCSS plugin.

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The transition process will be completed over this and the next two sections.

In terms of changing the CSS, it's a little more complicated, as we have to work out how many columns are required for each grid block. Fortunately, our example is relatively straightforward, as we numbered the original blocks with the appropriate column count, so we can use that as a basis for changing our CSS.

Let's make a start with updating our compilation process:

  1. We'll start by extracting a copy of the Tutorial31 folder from the code download that accompanies this book. Save it to the root of our project area.

  2. From the Tutorial31 folder, go ahead and extract copies of package.json and gulpfile.js files. Save these to the root of our project area.

  3. Next, we need to install the postcss-neat plugin. For...