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SCSS vs LESS

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April 20, 2012
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SCSS vs LESS

Comparing and contrasting two CSS alternatives

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Transcript

  1. SCSS vs LESS What's the dif?

  2. Why CSS Sucks

  3. Why CSS Sucks Repetitive code

  4. Why CSS Sucks Long calls (no nesting)

  5. Why CSS Sucks "Magic" Numbers

  6. Necessary Boring Part

  7. Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets Earlier versions inspired by HAML Version 3

    SCSS (Sassy CSS) - CSS OK SASS/SCSS

  8. Creator: Alexis Sellier (cloudhead) Can use in Belorussian LESS

  9. Feature Nesting Operations, Flow control Selector Inheritance Compiles in the

    browser SCSS LESS Feature Comparison

  10. Feature Variables Mixins String Interpolation JS Evaluation SCSS $ @mixin

    #{} none LESS @ . #{} `"hello".toUpperCase() + '!'` Syntax Differences

  11. Dude, show me the code already

  12. SCSS CSS

  13. LESS CSS

  14. CSS 742 SCSS 748 Character comparison LESS 704

  15. So what should I use?

  16. None

  17. fewer characters (@mixin vs .) bootstrap compiles in js -SCSS

    needs compiler outside of Ruby Why?