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Sass: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

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October 08, 2014
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Sass: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Bottom line: don't blame the tool, don't abuse the tool, and know your audience.

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October 08, 2014
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Transcript

  1. With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

  2. Sass-‐Man

  3. Sass doesn't create bad code

  4. Bad coders do

  5. That’s on us

  6. That’s on them

  7. What’s on us?

  8. Drive a screw with a hammer

  9. Feature abuse

  10. Not knowing our audience

  11. Sass is slow to compile

  12. What’s on them?

  13. Sass isn’t a programming language

  14. Treat CSS as a machine language

  15. @extend makes for ugly selectors

  16. Duplicate media queries

  17. Mixins produce bloated code

  18. Always use arguments or @content

  19. Nesting screws up specificity

  20. Nesting brings context

  21. Architecture is outside the {} — Ben Frain (http://roy.io/xxv)

  22. Performance is inside the {} — Ben Frain (http://roy.io/xxv)

  23. Don’t edit the damn CSS

  24. Roy Tomeij @roy