Overview
Note: This all day workshop will run from 10-5pm on Sat April 26th, and is available to WORKS and WORKSHOP ticket holders.
Discover the benefits of using Sass, a CSS pre-processor, along with Compass to help streamline front-end development, collaborate with other developers, and overall to help you enjoy writing CSS. The workshop will be divided up into 4 sections: basic, intermediate, advanced and tools of the trade and other fun tricks. Topics covered include:
- Pre-processor basics & setup
- Sass vs. SCSS syntax
- Basic DRY concepts with variables, nesting
- Functions and operations
- Expanded DRY concepts with mixins, extend, and placeholders
- Media queries
- Lists and new Sass 3.3 features
- Structuring Sass files and directories
- Using Compass
- Other frameworks
- Front-end performance
- Questions and tinkering
Knowledge of CSS is highly recommended for this workshop.
