Sassy Stylin'
Working with CSS can be arduous. CSS offers none of the facilities that we developers are so used. Facilities like code reuse via abstractions or inheritance, allowing the use of variables and functions. Developers are either forced to violate DRY principles due to copy-paste, or have mile long selector descriptors. This is further exacerbated in larger projects with multiple CSS files.
Enter SASS. SASS stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets. SASS is an abstraction built on top of CSS. SASS files are processed by the SASS compiler which outputs CSS. SASS has all the tools that we developers crave in CSS - variables, functions, math operations, even code reuse via mixins and inheritance!
In this session we will take a look at SASS. We will explore it's many features, and dive into some code. We will end the session by looking how we can begin to use SASS in our projects at work.
About Raju Gandhi
Raju is a software craftsman with almost 20 years of hands-on experience scoping, architecting, designing, implementing full stack applications.
He provides a 360 view of the development cycle, is proficient in a variety of programming languages and paradigms, experienced with software development methodologies, as well an expert in infrastructure and tooling.
He has long been in the pursuit of hermeticism across the development stack by championing immutability during development (with languages like Clojure), deployment (leveraging tools like Docker and Kubernetes), and provisioning and configuration via code (toolkits like Ansible, Terraform, Packer, everything-as-code).
Raju is a published author, internationally known public speaker and trainer.
Raju can be found on Twitter as @looselytyped.
In his spare time, you will find Raju reading, playing with technology, or spending time with his wonderful (and significantly better) other half.