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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

Updating code to use PostCSS


Although the PostCSS ecosystem doesn't yet have a plentiful selection of animation-based plugins, this should not stop us from using it to compile our animation styles. To prove this, we're going to modify the jQuery and .add/remove class version of our previous demo—we'll use PostCSS to add an animation easing from the Animate.css library created by Dan Eden.

The plugin we require is the postcss-animation plugin, which is available from https://github.com/zhouwenbin/postcss-animation and uses the postcss-animation-data plugin from https://github.com/zhouwenbin/postcss-animation-data. It's a cinch to install the plugin, which uses the same method as all of the other plugins we've installed to date.

Let's get started on the demo:

  1. We'll start by installing the postcss-animation plugin—for this, go ahead and open a Node.js session, then change the working directory to our project area.

  2. At the prompt, enter this command and press Enter:

    npm install postcss-animation ...