Episode 71
71: Building a CSS Framework with PostCSS
In this episode, Adam is joined by Matt Stauffer of Tighten to talk about building a CSS framework with PostCSS.
August 30, 201756m 27s
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Show Notes
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
Sponsors:
- Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
- Codeship
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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