I’ve read an interesting article introducing SASS.
In short: SASS (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) is an extension of CSS that allow you to code and organize your stylesheet using variables, nested rules, mixins and inline imports!
As outlined in the linked post it may appear as an hindrance but it isn’t: actually if your start using it you’re applying the “don’t repeat yourself” (DRY) principle… no more redundant repetition but a more clean and neat set of stylesheets!
…and it’s an open source project!!!
Steps to get started? A few:
- install a Sass application or the command line utility to process .scss files
- take a look at sass reference
- write a .scss file
- put it through one of those compiler and you get your css files!