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Re: Front-end Development Tooling Survey

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Post by bungle » Mon, Oct 31, 2016, 6:19 PM UTC

spikej wrote: post #7

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?

Because it is more simple to just use the prebuilt (no need to convert to css, no build tools), because browsers already cache the prebuilt? Because CDNs already have the prebuilt version. Because changing the version is about 1 character change in your own code. Because for whatever reason, some SASS stuff are not backward compatible. And most importantly none of the end users cares about it.

Re: Front-end Development Tooling Survey

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Post by talmand » Mon, Oct 31, 2016, 6:20 PM UTC

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?

No. I tell anyone I've run into that if you've never used SASS but you're comfortable with CSS then you'll be productive almost immediately. With a little bit of direction and reading you'll be up-to-speed within a couple of days. SASS is simply not a difficult thing to pick up.

But there's nothing holding you back from playing with it right now with Codepen or jsFiddle.

Re: Front-end Development Tooling Survey

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Post by xpxpg6zd » Mon, Oct 31, 2016, 10:42 PM UTC

Not a troll attempt, just a simple question from a guy who stopped to care about frontend a while ago : isn't web tech badly designed because of successive feature bendings, and aren't all those hyped frameworks, transpilers, package managers and stuff just attempts to fix it ? The X Window System got it right back in the 80's, I don't understand what's going on here.