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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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Stuart Robson Stuart Robson
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

Introduction

Sass helps you to write better, reusable, and more readable CSS. When writing, you should check any syntax and solve errors found when compiling your code. Although your CSS is valid, the compiled CSS code should be tested on different devices and browsers.

In this chapter, you will be introduced to CSS source maps that will help you find the source files of origin for the style rules of a certain HTML element in your page. You will also learn how to edit your Sass code in a browser.

Good code also contains constructive comments that make your code clearer for others. Adding comments to your code is the topic of the third recipe of this chapter.

Automated testing, as required for Test-driven Development (TDD), can be done with tools, such as Wraith (https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith) and Huxley (https://github.com/facebook/huxley). As well as these tools, you can also use style guides. Style guides show you the visual effect of your CSS code. In the fourth and fifth recipes...

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