Chapter 9. Tooling for an ECSS Approach
In this final chapter we will look at some of the free and open-source tooling that's available to facilitate writing sane and maintainable style sheets.
When authoring the CSS for an enduring project, the technology employed to produce the CSS should be largely immaterial. We should always be aware that a better or more efficient tool may become available to achieve our aims and when possible, and if preferable, it should be embraced.
Therefore, it shouldn't matter whether Sass, PostCSS, LESS, Stylus, Myth or any other CSS processor is employed to author the style sheets. The authored style sheets should be as easy to migrate to another meta-language as possible, if and when needed.
Furthermore, the CSS processor ...
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