Presentation for HTTQ in February 2013 by Ben Byrne on the CSS Preprocessor SASS, including getting it installed with ruby, sass and scss syntax, common Compass mixins, and sprites.
2. WHAT IS SASS?
Sass is a CSS Pre-processor
or meta-language
Sass is a “competitor” to LESS
and Stylus
Sass is written in Ruby
Sass is pretty cool
3. WHAT IS COMPASS?
Compass is an open-source
library of Sass mixins.
Compass is a CSS authoring
framework.
Compass is what makes Sass
really, really useful.
4. WHAT SASS DOES
Introduces new things to CSS:
• nested rules
• variables
• mixins
• inheritance
• and much more!
12. WE JUST COVERED
Compiling Sass files with
compass watch and
compass compile
Using @imports and underscores
to control our content
Mucking with config.rb