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

Getting Started with Sass
Debugging Your Code
Variables, Mixins, and Functions
Nested Selectors and Modular CSS
Built-in Functions
Using Compass
Cross-Browser CSS3 Mixins
Advanced Sass Coding
Building Layouts with Sass
Building Grid-based Layouts with Susy and Sass
Foundation and Sass
Bootstrap and Sass
Meeting the Bourbon Family
Ruby on Rails and Sass
Building Mobile Apps
Setting up a Build Chain with Grunt