Introduction

Bourbon is a simple and lightweight mixin library for Sass; it helps you to write CSS faster and easier, without the need for using vendor prefixes. Bourbon is maintained by the design team at Thoughtbot. From the same team, there's also Neat. Neat is a lightweight semantic grid framework for Sass with Bourbon. Finally, there are components and patterns built with Bourbon and Neat called Bitters. They can be used to scaffold styles, variables, and structure for Bourbon projects. In this chapter, you will learn how to use these libraries of the Bourbon family for your Sass projects.

Some example code in the recipes in this chapter import a CSS Reset, as described in the Using a CSS Reset recipe of Chapter 9, Building Layouts with Sass. The following declaration in SCSS code is used to do this:

@import 'base/normalize';