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Learning Ionic, Second Edition

You're reading from   Learning Ionic, Second Edition Hybrid mobile apps with HTML5, CSS3, and Angular

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466051
Length 378 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Arvind Ravulavaru Arvind Ravulavaru
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Angular - A Primer FREE CHAPTER 2. Welcome to Ionic 3. Ionic Components and Navigation 4. Ionic Decorators and Services 5. Ionic and SCSS 6. Ionic Native 7. Building the Riderr App 8. Ionic 2 Migration Guide 9. Testing an Ionic 2 App 10. Releasing the Ionic App 11. Ionic 3 Appendix

What is Sass?

Quoting from the Sass documentation:

"Sass is an extension of CSS that adds power and elegance to the basic language."

It allows us to use variables, nested rules, mixins, inline imports, and more, all with a fully CSS-compatible syntax. Sass helps keep large stylesheets well organized, and get small stylesheets up and running quickly.

In simpler terms, Sass makes CSS programmable. But the chapter is titled SCSS; why are we talking about Sass? Well, Sass and SCSS are pretty much the same CSS preprocessor, each with its own way of writing the pre-CSS syntax.

SCSS was developed as part of another preprocessor named HAML (http://haml.info/) by Ruby developers, so it inherited a lot of syntax style from Ruby, such as indentation, no braces, and no semicolons.

A sample Sass file would look like this:

// app.sass 

brand-primary= blue

.container
color= !brand-primary
margin= 0px auto
...
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