Sass and Compass: An Introduction

Posted by peezy on October 18, 2013 at 6:57pm

Start:

2013-11-07 18:00 - 20:00 America/New_York

Event type:

User group meeting

http://meetu.ps/22v70z

When

Thursday, November 7th, 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Where
Alpha Loft
3 Congress Street, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Directions: http://goo.gl/maps/Jlnxm
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Topic(s)

In this session, I'll be sharing some of what I've been learning about Sass and Compass. Sass is an extension of CSS3 that can improve your productivity as a front-end developer and Compass can be thought of as a library for Sass. At this intro session, we won't delve too deeply into integrating Drupal and Sass/Compass... we'll save that for a later date.

We'll also save some time towards the end for our typical Q&A. Please bring a question/issue you've ran across in the past month, or something cool/amazing they've discovered in the past month. If you have a specific, complex issue be prepared to stay a little later and be paired with an individual who can help you.

Comments

Sounds rad, I could stand to

Posted by jnicola on October 18, 2013 at 11:07pm

Sounds rad, I could stand to see some compass stuff as I haven't delved much into that.

Just to clarify for anyone new interested in this: Sass is not actually an extension of CSS3, it's a CSS pre-processor. What does that mean? Check out this article for some more info. The short story goes that it lets you use variables and "mixins" (stored groups of properties) . It will free up a lot of time in your front end development, simplify the code you write... and pretty much any employer these days who expects you to do any front end development is asking to see experience in this.

Jesse Nicola -- Shredical six different ways to Sunday! -- My Portfolio

Thank you for the link and

Posted by peezy on October 21, 2013 at 2:38pm

Thank you for the link and the info, Jesse.

I think we're both right... Sass extends what you can do with CSS in many ways, including preprocessing. I got the phrase directly from the book on which I'm basing my presentation, which states that "Sass is an extension of CSS3" (p. 3).