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What is CSS preprocessor?
Nowadays, we often craft our styles by using preprocessors syntax. They provides a CSS-like syntax with enhanced features to save our time when building the web.
Preprocessing
We may get help from CSS Preprocessors. They enchance the CSS with a couple of handy features. Here are common features that preprocessors provides:
- variables
- functions (mixin)
- nested selectors
Tools
For the tools to compile the code into CSS, we need tool. Someone may favour command-line tool and some may favour GUI ones. Here are the GUIs.
- CodeKit (mac only)
- LiveReload (win and mac)
And here is the command-line tools.
What’s next? We’re going to take a look at “Preprocessor options”.
