Craig Buckler demonstrates how use Gulp.js to automate CSS tasks, such as optimizing images, compiling Sass files, handling and inlining assets, automatically appending vendor prefixes, removing unused CSS selectors, minifying CSS, reporting file sizes, outputting sourcemaps and more.
Tag: css preprocessors
How to Use Gulp.js to Automate Your CSS Tasks
Getting Started with Sass
Darren Wood offers an overview of Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets), where you'll learn why you need it and how to get started with it right now.
PostCSS Mythbusting: Four PostCSS Myths Busted
Ashley Nolan addresses some of the most common myths around PostCSS to show how it can enhance your workflow and improve how you work with CSS.
CSS Variables Land in Firefox 31
Craig takes a look at native CSS variables, which can now be used in Firefox 31. Has the technology become redundant before we can use it?
[Video] Intro to Sass: A World Where Front-end Dev Isn’t Quite So Sucky
A quick video introduction to three of the most popular preprocessors: Sass, Haml, and CoffeeScript.
What Nobody Told You About Sass’s @extend
Most Sass developers have a basic grasp of @extend. This article expands on the topic and shows you some things you might not know.