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- UI developer with any amount of experience can grab this copy and get started with it. The content of this book can work for beginners as well as experts.
- Preprocessors are the most happening thing in UI development. It’s changing the way people use to write CSS, making it far more simpler and extendable.
- This book will cover two of the known Preprocessor frameworks i.e SASS and Less
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Learn how preprocessors can make CSS scalable and easy to maintain. You'll see how to write code in a very clean and scalable manner and use CSS preprocessor features such as variables and looping, which are missing in CSS natively. Reading Beginning CSS Preprocessors will make your life much simpler by showing you how to create reusable chunks of code. In addition to coding enhancements, you’ll also learn to automate processes such as generating image sprites and minifying code.
Beginning CSS Preprocessors is your guide for getting started with CSS preprocessors. This book shows you how to use CSS in your day-to-day work and thus be smart and efficient at writing CSS.
- What are preprocessors
- What are the known preprocessor frameworks
- What are the features of Sass (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets)
- What is Compass (COMPrehensive ASSembler)
- What is Less (Leaner SS)
About the author
Anirudh Prabhu is a software engineer with over 5 years of industry experience. He specializes in technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, PHP, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, and SASS, and also has knowledge of CoffeeScript and AngularJS. In addition to web development, he has been involved in building training material and writing tutorials for twenty19 for the technologies mentioned.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning CSS Preprocessors
Book Subtitle: With SASS, Compass.js and Less.js
Authors: Anirudh Prabhu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1347-6
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Anirudh Prabhu 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-1348-3Published: 19 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-1347-6Published: 28 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 142
Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations
Topics: Web Development, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction