Chapter 6. The Stylus CSS Preprocessor
Stylus is the recommended CSS preprocessor for Express. It comes with an intuitive syntax for generating CSS and a flexible programming language to manage the dynamics of the CSS generation process.
Using Stylus saves a lot of time during development and maintenance. You will learn the following in this chapter:
- How to enable Stylus in Express
- Understand the Stylus CSS syntax
- How to use the programming capabilities of Stylus
Introduction
Stylus is a CSS preprocessor—a tool for generating CSS in a more efficient and dynamic manner. It comes with a logical syntax for generating CSS style definition blocks, and a programming language to make the CSS generation process very dynamic.
Note
Although, we cover most aspects ...
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