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71: Building a CSS Framework with PostCSS


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Topics include:

  • What is PostCSS, really?
  • PostCSS vs. other preprocessors like Less and Sass
  • Examples of things PostCSS can do
  • How to use PostCSS to add your own features to CSS
  • How to disguise custom features as valid CSS so PostCSS will parse it
  • Porting Tailwind CSS from Less to PostCSS and why it's been awesome

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Links:

  • Tailwind CSS, Adam's upcoming CSS framework
  • CSS Utility Classes and "Separation of Concerts", blog post explaining the motivation behind Tailwind
  • PostCSS.org
  • cssnext
  • "Create Your Own Plugin", PostCSS tutorial at tuts+
  • PostCSS API documentation
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