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Front-end Development Tooling Survey

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Re: Front-end Development Tooling Survey

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Post by mandazi »

Sometimes I feel like I am behind with CSS. I have not used LESS or SASS or any others on any production application that I work on. It's usually Bootstrap and then custom CSS to override. I have messed around and learned the basics of LESS/SASS but nothing beyond that.

Am I behind?

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Post by Touche »

mandazi wrote: post #2

Sometimes I feel like I am behind with CSS. I have not used LESS or SASS or any others on any production application that I work on. It's usually Bootstrap and then custom CSS to override. I have messed around and learned the basics of LESS/SASS but nothing beyond that. Am I behind?

Probably not, but how are you handling theming?

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Post by citeguised »

mandazi wrote: post #2

Sometimes I feel like I am behind with CSS. I have not used LESS or SASS or any others on any production application that I work on. It's usually Bootstrap and then custom CSS to override. I have messed around and learned the basics of LESS/SASS but nothing beyond that. Am I behind?

For your own projects it doesn't matter, as long as you're productive. If you're looking for employment in the frontend-sector, you should get used to SASS.

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Post by et-al »

mandazi wrote: post #2

Sometimes I feel like I am behind with CSS. I have not used LESS or SASS or any others on any production application that I work on. It's usually Bootstrap and then custom CSS to override. I have messed around and learned the basics of LESS/SASS but nothing beyond that. Am I behind?

If you're working on large sites, I'd looking into SASS and modular CSS:

http://thesassway.com/modular-css

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Post by spikej »

mandazi wrote: post #2

Sometimes I feel like I am behind with CSS. I have not used LESS or SASS or any others on any production application that I work on. It's usually Bootstrap and then custom CSS to override. I have messed around and learned the basics of LESS/SASS but nothing beyond that. Am I behind?

Why not start slowly by utilizing Bootstrap SASS + your custom css as SASS?

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Post by jordache »

citeguised wrote: post #4
mandazi wrote: post #2

Sometimes I feel like I am behind with CSS. I have not used LESS or SASS or any others on any production application that I work on. It's usually Bootstrap and then custom CSS to override. I have messed around and learned the basics of LESS/SASS but nothing beyond that. Am I behind?

For your own projects it doesn't matter, as long as you're productive. If you're looking for employment in the frontend-sector, you should get used to SASS.

Except when it comes to writing CSS, it doesn't matter how skilled you are at CSS, one simply can not be as equally productive without using a preprocessor.

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Post by ysavir »

mandazi wrote: post #2

Sometimes I feel like I am behind with CSS. I have not used LESS or SASS or any others on any production application that I work on. It's usually Bootstrap and then custom CSS to override. I have messed around and learned the basics of LESS/SASS but nothing beyond that. Am I behind?

"Behind" feels like the wrong term, but you're definitely holding yourself back.

The good thing about SASS (or, well, SCSS, which is what you would want to use) is that it integrates directly with CSS, so you can start utilizing it in your existing CSS files without having to convert the stylesheets to SCSS. You would just need to run those files through the preprocessor.

There's a lot to learn and a lot you can do, but you can always start with the simple stuff (such as using variables to collect all color codes in one place, etc), and gradually introduce more SASS code as you learn about it and have the time to implement it.

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