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Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook

You're reading from   Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook Over 120 practical and easy-to-understand recipes that explain how to use Sass and Compass to write efficient, maintainable, and reusable CSS code for your web development projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783286935
Length 436 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Sass FREE CHAPTER 2. Debugging Your Code 3. Variables, Mixins, and Functions 4. Nested Selectors and Modular CSS 5. Built-in Functions 6. Using Compass 7. Cross-Browser CSS3 Mixins 8. Advanced Sass Coding 9. Building Layouts with Sass 10. Building Grid-based Layouts with Susy and Sass 11. Foundation and Sass 12. Bootstrap and Sass 13. Meeting the Bourbon Family 14. Ruby on Rails and Sass 15. Building Mobile Apps 16. Setting up a Build Chain with Grunt Index

Building style guides with tdcss.js

In TDD, tests are written to test functional blocks of code and match the specification. After this, you write the code that makes test pass.

When applying test-driven CSS, the style guide is your test. After making changes in your Sass code, all the user interface elements in your style guide should still look as required.

Jakob Løkke Madsen (@jakobloekke) promotes test-driven development for CSS code. Madsen wrote the tdcss.js framework, which is a super simple style guide tool. The tdcss.js framework only depends on jQuery, and it is especially well-suited for adopting a test-driven approach to CSS styling. You can also use the tdcss.js framework to build a regular online style guide.

Getting ready

Download the tdcss.js file at https://github.com/jakobloekke/tdcss.js/archive/master.zip. Unzip this file in your working directory, which will create a folder called tdcss.js-master. Rename the tdcss.js-master folder to match the directory structure used...

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