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Sass vs Scss

Joel Olawanle on August 22, 2020

The major reason Sass was developed was to make writing CSS more efficient and awesome. If you are looking for a preprocessor language to learn, I ...
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Callum White

That's awesome. I started using scss recently and just assumed that the difference was only the filename.

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Yogesh Chavan • Edited

Check out this article, to learn the main features provided by scss and learn how to use it effectively

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Joel Olawanle

Thanks for this!

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Yogesh Chavan

welcome

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Yogesh Chavan

To use scss in React application, check out this article

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Joel Olawanle

Wao, it's far more than that. Thanks for reading!

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Adam Crockett 🌀 • Edited

Yo Joel, just a heads up this post should not have the tag #news

Expect to see announcements of new and updated products, services, and features for languages & frameworks. You also will find high-level news relevant to the tech and software development industry covered here.

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Joel Olawanle

Sorry, for that... Already fixed that

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

I use SASS 1.0

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Joel Olawanle

Wao, any personal reason for that?

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

I've been using Sass since it came out. When Sass 2.0 was introduced it felt like a step backwards having to put back in all those curly braces.

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Joel Olawanle

Ohhh.... I now perfectly understand.

That's why the choice of which one to use solely depends on the user!

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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦

pretty much lol

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Petros Koulianos

Great explanation 😀

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Joel Olawanle

Thanks so much for reading and the feedback😁

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Hodeem

Very clear and simple explanation. Love it!

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Joel Olawanle

Thanks so much for reading and the feedback😁