CSS preprocessors
Around 10 years ago, when CSS was not so advanced as it is nowadays with all these new features, it was really hard to maintain CSS code when we were dealing with big applications.
CSS preprocessors were created to extend the CSS, which would include features such as variables, functions, operators, and other different assets, which at that time were missing on the CSS side.
With CSS preprocessors, we extend the functionality of CSS and make our lives as developers much easier by doing different math calculations to achieve specific layout results or UI component results.
Besides math calculations such as subtraction, addition, division, and multiplication that we can do using CSS preprocessors, we can also use different ...
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