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Leopinzon

You gotta be kidding, so you’ve never seen sass prior to writing this article?

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codedgar

I knew what it was, but I haven't used it since most of my work is pure HTML, CSS and JS without anything like NodeJS, React or VueJS so I haven't catch up with CSS preprocessors 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Leopinzon

I’d kindly suggest you to start using it, it is certainly a one way road.

Don’t think of it as something related to node frameworks. If you build front end, it is simply your right hand for writing, organizing and maintaining your CSS at the same time you speed up the development . You can even reuse your own partial definitions within your CSS project as many times as you want, make global variables.... etc. Also you will be able to split your files into components or pages (your choice) without using the CSS @import statement that, as you sure know, triggers new requests to the server, something that is not a very good practice from a page load optimization point of view. The fewer requests, the better.

Customizing bootstrap is something you’ll learn later, but building everything on pure CSS is not efficient for you, and you’ll end up crazy trying to maintain big projects.

Hope it helps :)

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codedgar

Thanks for the kind answer, I really appreciate it!

I will totally check it out and see how much I can improve my work with it, thanks again! 😄