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The single hardest part of front-end development at scale is making changes to code and understanding all of the visual and behavioral effects that will occur as a result.
When you build a component, tests should be written that expose each state a component can be in. This test should generate a static html file and a corresponding image for every discrete state a component can be in.
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// Sass (v3.4.7) | |
// Compass (v1.0.1) | |
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// path e.g. 'c.B' | |
$z-stack: ( | |
a: 'just a comment', // 8 | |
b: 2, // 7 @warn | |
c: ( // 4 |
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Or, 16 cool things you may not have known your stylesheets could do. I'd rather have kept it to a nice round number like 10, but they just kept coming. Sorry.
I've been using SCSS/SASS for most of my styling work since 2009, and I'm a huge fan of Compass (by the great @chriseppstein). It really helped many of us through the darkest cross-browser crap. Even though browsers are increasingly playing nice with CSS, another problem has become very topical: managing the complexity in stylesheets as our in-browser apps get larger and larger. SCSS is an indispensable tool for dealing with this.
This isn't an introduction to the language by a long shot; many things probably won't make sense unless you have some SCSS under your belt already. That said, if you're not yet comfy with the basics, check out the aweso