Less Web Development Essentials - Second Edition

Less is a preprocessor for CSS that uses less.js for real-time compilation, unlike other preprocessors. Building responsive websites with advanced features such as gradients and animations makes your CSS code complex. Less helps you to write clean, reusable, and maintainable CSS.

Starting off with the fundamental concepts of Less and CSS, you are taken on a tour of how to improve your web development skills with Less.

Next, you get to grips with mixins and variables in Less, which help you to avoid code duplication and write reusable code. Then, you venture into the concepts of nested rules, operations, and built-in functions, which help you in the dynamic creation of CSS properties and help you to create shorter and effective style sheets.

By the end of the book, you will be able to develop code faster and reduce the maintenance time for your web development projects.


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Less Web Development Essentials - Second Edition

Less is a preprocessor for CSS that uses less.js for real-time compilation, unlike other preprocessors. Building responsive websites with advanced features such as gradients and animations makes your CSS code complex. Less helps you to write clean, reusable, and maintainable CSS.

Starting off with the fundamental concepts of Less and CSS, you are taken on a tour of how to improve your web development skills with Less.

Next, you get to grips with mixins and variables in Less, which help you to avoid code duplication and write reusable code. Then, you venture into the concepts of nested rules, operations, and built-in functions, which help you in the dynamic creation of CSS properties and help you to create shorter and effective style sheets.

By the end of the book, you will be able to develop code faster and reduce the maintenance time for your web development projects.


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Less Web Development Essentials - Second Edition

Less Web Development Essentials - Second Edition

by Bass Jobsen
Less Web Development Essentials - Second Edition

Less Web Development Essentials - Second Edition

by Bass Jobsen

Overview

Less is a preprocessor for CSS that uses less.js for real-time compilation, unlike other preprocessors. Building responsive websites with advanced features such as gradients and animations makes your CSS code complex. Less helps you to write clean, reusable, and maintainable CSS.

Starting off with the fundamental concepts of Less and CSS, you are taken on a tour of how to improve your web development skills with Less.

Next, you get to grips with mixins and variables in Less, which help you to avoid code duplication and write reusable code. Then, you venture into the concepts of nested rules, operations, and built-in functions, which help you in the dynamic creation of CSS properties and help you to create shorter and effective style sheets.

By the end of the book, you will be able to develop code faster and reduce the maintenance time for your web development projects.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785286698
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication date: 04/30/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 270
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Bass Jobsen has been programming for the Web since 1995, covering everything from C to PHP, and is always on the hunt for the most accessible interfaces. Based in Orthen, the Netherlands, he was the coauthor of Less Web Development Cookbook, Packt Publishing, which contains over 110 practical recipes to help you write leaner, more efficient CSS code using Less.
He uses Less in his daily job for web design tasks, WordPress theme development, the awesome StreetArt.nl project, and other Twitter Bootstrap apps.
He is always happy to help you at http://stackoverflow.com/users/1596547/bass-jobsen, and he blogs at http://bassjobsen.weblogs.fm/.
Also, check out his Bootstrap WordPress Starter Theme (JBST) and other projects on GitHub at https://github.com/bassjobsen.
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