The Best SCSS Books of All Time

If you know HTML and CSS, then you can have all the power of Sass and Compass at your disposal. This step-by-step guide will take you through the time-saving features that makes it so much easier to create cross-browser CSS. Overview. Simple, clear, and thorough. This book ensures you don’t need to be a programming mastermind to wield the power of Sass and Compass!Previously tricky and time-consuming CSS tasks will become trivial. Easily produce cross-browser CSS3 gradients, shadows, and transformations along with image sprites, data URIs, and more.

Follow along with installing, setting up, and working through an entire project, implementing the Sass and Compass techniques and tools as we go.In Detail. The CSS preprocessor, Sass, is becoming the de-facto standard for producing cross-browser CSS more maintainable and with more ease. It supercharges CSS with features that make previously difficult and time-consuming tasks trivial. This book concentrates on distilling the techniques in a straightforward manner making it accessible to all, even to those that only know HTML and CSS. Written by the author of the bestselling "Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3", Sass and Compass for Designers will explain everything you need to get Sass and Compass installed, mastered, and making your life easier. There will be no perplexing terminology or baffling syntax left unexplained. We'll get you set up and then build a site together, step by step, using the incredible power of Sass and Compass. We will start with a completely unstyled HTML document and build a responsive Sass and Compass powered website step by step. Sass and Compass make CSS easy. You'll learn how to manipulate color in the stylesheet with a single command, create responsive grids with ease, automatically create image sprites, and create CSS3 powered rules that work across all modern browsers. "Sass and Compass for Designers" explains how to produce great CSS easier than ever before. What you will learn from this book. Install Sass and Compass on your system and then set up and maintain Sass and Compass powered projects!Learn how to easily manipulate colors; tinting, shading, mixing, and complementing existing colors in your stylesheets becomes a cinch.Make your own responsive CSS-based layout grid that scales across any viewport with no extra markup needed.Create media query-based CSS rules alongside existing styles, making responsive website building simpler.Explore Compass’s many helpers and tools. You’ll learn to embed images and fonts and produce advanced cross-browser CSS3.Create perfect image sprites with Compass in moments.Learn how to create loops with Sass to automate repetitive CSS tasks.Understand how to compartmentalize code, making your CSS more maintainable, understandable, and modular than ever before.Approach. A step-by-step tutorial guide, taking you through how to build a responsive Sass and Compass powered website. Who this book is written for. If you understand HTML and CSS, this book is all you need to take your code to the next level with Sass and Compass. No prior understanding of CSS preprocessors or programming conventions is needed.

This book is mainly intended for web developers and designers who are comfortable with CSS and HTML. If you are someone with some experience with CSS, you will find the learning curve of learning Sass syntax to be less steep. Basic knowledge of web development is helpful but you don't have to be a programmer to understand Sass.

Leverage the power of Dart Sass to quickly create valid CSS styles for use within websites. This short project-oriented book simplifies the process of creating and manipulating Sass code in the browser, for websites, or online applications, using little more than a text editor or free software. Designed to be much faster and simpler to use, yet still maintain the same features as past versions of Sass, Dart Sass offers a host of benefits of using it against writing CSS manually.

You will be equipped with a starting toolset that you can use to develop future projects, incorporate into your existing workflow and reduce any dependency on graphics applications such as Illustrator for simple projects. Dart Sass is a complete rewrite of what many know as Ruby Sass but you don’t have to convert your whole work process immediately to working with Sass. You will learn how to incorporate as little or as much as you need, and how to build on it as your skills develop. We live in an age where speed and simplicity are of the essence – Introducing Dart Sass provides a perfect way to create valid CSS quickly, efficiently, and with the minimum of fuss. What You Will Learn. Understand how Sass works and the benefits of using it against writing CSS manually. Create styles quickly and easily, using the power of Sass. Apply styles from pre-built libraries, to help reduce time and effort required. Gain an appreciation of the importance of optimizing content for efficiency. Work through a real-world project example using Sass and third-party Sass-based libraries. Who This Book Is For. Website developers who are already familiar with writing CSS and to learn how to leverage Sass to quickly and more efficiently create valid CSS in projects. Those in agile developmentteams, where time is of the essence, and the pressure is on to deliver results quickly. Developers who want to focus on simplicity to produce properly optimized content in modern browsers using tools already in their possession.