SASS (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets) is a scripting language known as a CSS preprocessor. CSS preprocessors are compiled into CSS and by doing so, extend the default capabilities of CSS.

Sass makes authoring stylesheets faster, easier, and more flexible. It’s a welcome helper in the world of web design, because anyone that’s created a website knows that CSS is hard.

In this course, you will learn how to use nesting, variables, mixins, partials, functions and more to write dynamic and reusable styles of code. You’ll also learn the various methods to structure your projects and bring organization to your stylesheets.

By the end of this course, you’ll have advanced knowledge of SASS. You’ll be able to migrate an existing CSS codebase, as well as set up an entire project (and build process) from scratch.

Sass for CSS: Advanced Frontend Development

So far, you’ve learned what Sass is, how to install and run it on a local server, and we’ve looked at many of the features that no-doubt make it an extremely useful addition to your front-end skill set!


Using SASS, we write much cleaner code, reduce repetition by reusing code, organize our projects much more effectively and even build programmatic logic into our stylesheets. 

SASS makes the maintenance of CSS a much easier task and actually saves us — as developers — a lot of time!

In the next chapter, we'll be looking at how we can go about structuring our SASS projects!

Here is a brief summary of what we've covered so far before we move on to the next section!

Starting with SASS

SASS Features

Structuring your SASS Projects

Setting up a SASS Build Process

Bonus: Setting up Media Queries with SASS Mixins

Appendix

Summing up