CHAPTER 2
Introduction to Sass
In the previous chapter, you learned about precompilers, including why to use them, which ones are the known preprocessors, and their features. This chapter covers one of the most popular preprocessors: Sass.
In this chapter, you explore the following aspects of Sass:
- Installation
- Running the code
- Variables
- Comments
- Data types
- Parentheses
- Nested rules
- Nested properties
- Referencing parent selector
- Interpolation
- Placeholder selector
- Logical and control directives
Installing Sass
You install Sass via a Ruby gem, so you need to have Ruby installed on your machine. If you are on Mac OS X, you already have Ruby installed. If you are ...
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