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Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition
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Magento 2 Theme Design - Second Edition

by Fernando J Miguel, Richard Carter
October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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LESS and CSS preprocessing

One of the major questions that is always raised when developers work with large and complex projects that require many frontend rules via CSS, is: how will I work my code in a sustainable, scalable, and modular way?

The preprocessing in CSS, although not a silver bullet for all issues, promotes the writing of reusable and maintainable CSS codes, increasing productivity and reducing the amount of coding in the project, thereby achieving a better performance.

In Magento 1.9, the solution used for CSS compilation was the SASS (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets) technology (http://sass-lang.com/). The SASS is a CSS extension that implements additional features for use in their projects, such as variables, mixins, inline ...

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