There are a lot of web compilers out there, like Glup, WebPack, or even Grunt in the old days, and I’m sure there are many more.Īll of them require a lot of complicated configuration to make them useful. Let’s say you want to import two partials ( _header.scss and _footer.scss) into another file called base.scss(assuming they are both in the same folder).When it comes to creating a website, especially a general corporate website that uses WordPress, Prepros is sufficient for various compilers. This allows you to output a single CSS file that will be served to the browser (i.e. Sass improves upon this directive by combining your Sass files prior to compiling your CSS. The downside of this is that it requires an additional HTTP request for each import statement, which negatively affects your web page performance. | `– main.scss # Main Sass file ImportsĬSS currently allows you to use to include other CSS files in another main CSS file. | |– vendors/ | |– _bootstrap.scss # Bootstrap | |– _jquery-ui.scss # jQuery UI | … # Etc. | |– themes/ | |– _theme.scss # Default theme | |– _admin.scss # Admin theme | … # Etc. | |– pages/ | |– _home.scss # Home specific styles | |– _contact.scss # Contact specific styles | … # Etc. | |– layout/ | |– _navigation.scss # Navigation | |– _grid.scss # Grid system | |– _header.scss # Header | |– _footer.scss # Footer | |– _sidebar.scss # Sidebar | |– _forms.scss # Forms | … # Etc. | |– components/ | |– _buttons.scss # Buttons | |– _carousel.scss # Carousel | |– _cover.scss # Cover | |– _dropdown.scss # Dropdown | … # Etc. sass/ | |– abstracts/ | |– _variables.scss # Sass Variables | |– _functions.scss # Sass Functions | |– _mixins.scss # Sass Mixins | |– _placeholders.scss # Sass Placeholders | |– base/ | |– _reset.scss # Reset/normalize | |– _typography.scss # Typography rules | … # Etc. One pattern I like to follow for my files and folders is the 7–1 pattern introduced by Hugo Giraudel. This is especially true if you follow a good file architecture. Partials are a great way to organize your Sass and can save you lots of time trying to find the correct styles to modify. Partial files are named with a leading _ such as _button.scss or _carousel.scss. Sass partials are included in other files using the directive (explained next). Partials are files that contain Sass snippets to be included in other Sass files.
Partials allow you to modularize your Sass. Two other popular options are Less and Stylus, which come with their own set of features and syntax.Ĭompiled CSS for the Sass example above Partials Of course, Sass is not the only option when it comes to preprocessors. Sass stands for Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets This allows the browser to properly apply the styles to your web page. The newly compiled CSS file is what gets loaded to your browser to style your web application. sass) files, which will then get compiled into a regular CSS file. Sass is one of the most popular CSS preprocessors out there and it is widely used in a lot of applications.
#Convert prepros to grunt code
CSS preprocessors allow you to cut the lines of code necessary for writing your CSS and it also allows you to make changes more quickly since you don’t have to change repeated instances of CSS. The CSS specification is slowly adopting features that are currently available in preprocessors (such as variables), but it still has a long way to go to catch up to preprocessors. CSS preprocessors allow us to use certain features that aren’t currently available in CSS.
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