| 6 | Importing Files |
When you’re developing, it’s often useful to have many smaller style sheets rather than one huge one. Who wants to read through a thousand-line style sheet? However, loading many small CSS files can be a pain for web performance. If you have five style sheets on a particular page, it can make the page-loading times much slower because each style sheet needs a separate request to load.
Importing is a process by which a lot of files are turned into a few files. Sass has a neat little trick whereby the smaller style sheets are imported into the larger one as it is compiled into CSS. All you need to type is @import, followed by the name of the Sass file you want to import. You can mix Original Sass and SCSS at will with imports—it’s ...
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