Shane Parsons shaneparsons

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

Getting Started with NPM (as a developer)

As easy as 1, 2, 3!

Updated:

Aug, 08, 2022 update config docs for npm 8+
Jul 27, 2021 add private scopes
Jul 22, 2021 add dist tags
Jun 20, 2021 update for --access=public
Sep 07, 2020 update docs for npm version

	(function($) {

	function getTextWidth($element) {
	var tester = $("<div/>").text($element.text())
	.css({ "position": "absolute", "float": "left", "white-space": "nowrap", "visibility": "hidden", "font": $element.css("font"), "text-transform": $element.css("text-transform"), "letter-spacing": $element.css("letter-spacing") })
	.appendTo($element.parent()),
	width = tester.innerWidth();
	tester.remove();
	return width;
	}

	<!doctype html>
	<title>Site Maintenance</title>
	<style>
	body { text-align: center; padding: 150px; }
	h1 { font-size: 50px; }
	body { font: 20px Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333; }
	article { display: block; text-align: left; width: 650px; margin: 0 auto; }
	a { color: #dc8100; text-decoration: none; }
	a:hover { color: #333; text-decoration: none; }
	</style>