Sass and Compass Designer’s Cookbook

Key Features

• Leverage Sass to make your CSS code maintainable, reusable and prevent code duplications
• Shorten debug time with Sass when creating complex CSS code for different browsers and devices
• Write easy and bullet-proof CSS with Compass using this step-by-step and detailed guide

Book Description

Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook helps you to get most out of CSS3 and harness its benefits to create engaging and receptive applications. This book will help you develop faster and reduce the maintenance time for your web development projects by using Sass and Compass. You will learn how to use with CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap and Foundation and understand how to use other libraries of pre-built mixins. You will also learn setting up a development environment with Gulp.

This book guides you through all the concepts and gives you practical examples for full understanding.

What you will learn

• Spend less time debugging code
• Compile Sass code into readable and maintainable CSS
• Integrate Sass in your own projects
• Reuse your code to prevent code duplications
• Write reusable and portable CSS code
• Make use of pre-built and established code written by other developers
• Reduce development and maintenance time of your projects
• Set up a development environment with Gulp

About the Author

Bass Jobsen has been programming for the Web since 1995, covering everything from C to PHP and is always on the hunt to find the most accessible interfaces. He is based in Orthen, the Netherlands.

Bass uses Sass in his daily job for web designing tasks and WordPress theme development.

He can be contacted via http://stackoverflow.com/users/1596547/bass-jobsen and he writes a blog that you can find at http://bassjobsen.weblogs.fm/.

Also, check his Bootstrap WordPress Starters Themes (JBST) and other projects at GitHub: https://github.com/bassjobsen.

Information on his current projects and development is available at http://www.streetart.com/, https://menstrualcups.eu/ and https://github.com/bassjobsen/jbst-4-sass.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Sass
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