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Welcome to the Pragmatic Guide to Sass 3. Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets) enables you to do amazing things with your style sheets and write more efficient, beautiful, and maintainable code.

“What’s wrong with regular ol’ CSS?” we hear you cry. The fact is that CSS, with all its power and elegance, is not designed for developer productivity. Instead, it’s focused on helping the browser quickly display styles as simply as possible. There’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s not helpful for us as developers. That’s where Sass comes in—to extend CSS, adding new features and syntax focused on making your life as a developer easier.

Sass isn’t a replacement for CSS—it’s a way to help us write better CSS files, which is essential ...

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