Mastering PostCSS for Web Design

by Alex Libby

PostCSS is a tool that has quickly emerged as the future of existing preprocessors such as SASS and Less, mainly because of its power, speed, and ease of use. This comprehensive guide offers in-depth guidance on incorporating cutting-edge styles into your web page and at the same time maintaining the performance and maintainability of your code. The book will show how you can take advantage of PostCSS to simplify the entire process of stylesheet authoring. It covers various techniques to add dynamic and modern styling features to your web pages. As the book progresses, you will learn how to make CSS code more maintainable by taking advantage of the modular architecture of PostCSS. By the end of this book, you would have mastered the art of adding modern CSS effects to web pages by authoring high performing, maintainable stylesheets. Alex Libby's background is in IT support―he has been involved in supporting end users for almost 20 years in a variety of different environments; a recent change in role now sees Alex working as an MVT test developer for a global distributor based in the UK. Although Alex gets to play with different technologies in his day job, his first true love has always been the open source movement, and in particular, experimenting with CSS/CSS3, jQuery, and HTML5. To date, Alex has written 10 books on subjects such as jQuery, HTML5 video, SASS, and CSS for Packt and has reviewed several more―Mastering PostCSS Web Design is Alex's eleventh book for Packt.

414 pages, Paperback

Published June 30, 2016

Reviews

[Anton Antonov · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not worth reading.
The book is too much boilerplate and not better than any PostCSS documentation.

I suggest reading the official documentation.

[Rendall]

If you want a slow, step-by-step walk-through of the concepts of pre-processors, task-runners, variables, mixins and such, then this is your book. If you're looking for a concise, focused book on the Postcss post-processor with obscure tips and tricks, this is not the book you want.