Mastering Sass

Create interactive and responsive cross-browser apps with SASS and Compass About This Book • Create data-intensive highly scalable apps using Sass and COMPASS • Master the concepts of Sass and COMPASS and unleash your potential to develop enterprise-grade apps • This book is an experts guide on leveraging Sass and COMPASS features Who This Book Is For This book is aimed at those who know CSS3 and HTML5 quite well and whove built a few small-to-medium-sized websites from scratch using Sass and Compass. What You Will Learn • Master Sass and Compass features • Familiarize yourself with CSS and HTML concepts that are vital for a good Sass workflow. • Build real-world websites focusing on layouts and content aspects • Work on a grid system using Compass and Susy • Automate your workflow with Gulp • Write functions and mixins to leverage the control flow In Detail CSS and Sass add elegance and excellence to the basic language and consist of a CSS-compatible syntax that allows you to use variables nested rules mixins inline imports and much more. This book will start with an overview of the features in Sass and Compass most of which youll already be familiar; however this will ensure you know whats expected as the book goes deeper into Sass and Compass. Next you will learn CSS and HTML concepts that are vital to a good Sass workflow. After all Sass exists to simplify writing CSS but it wont teach you how to make clean scalable reusable CSS. For that you need to understand some basic concepts of OOCSS SMACCS and Atomic Design. Once youve brushed up on the important concepts its time to write some Sass. Mainly youll write a few functions and mixins that really leverage control flow using @if / @else loops and youll learn how to figure out when and why things are going wrong before they bring you to a stop. Moving further youll learn how to use @debug @warn and @error to properly handle errors. Youll also learn about Gulp and how to use it to automate your workflow and reduce your repetitive tasks. And finally youll learn about sourcemaps. With sourcemaps youll be able to write debug and view your Sass and Compass all from within the browser. Itll even LiveReload too! As a bonus youll take a look at that funky Flexbox currently all the rage! Youll learn how powerful and flexible it really is and how you can use it with Compass. Best of all it falls back very gracefully indeed! In fact youll be able to apply it to any existing project without having to change a line of the original CSS. Style and approach This book will provide readers with practical actionable expertise to enhance their knowledge