Vincent Smedinga VincentSmedinga

Advanced SCSS

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

UI development as a first-class citizen

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.

Skip verifying disk images

defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify true

Always hide the Desktop

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false; killall Finder

Make terminal logins fast

touch ~/.hushlogin

	// ----
	// Sass (v3.4.7)
	// Compass (v1.0.1)
	// ----

	// path e.g. 'c.B'
	$z-stack: (
	a: 'just a comment', // 8
	b: 2, // 7 @warn
	c: ( // 4