Turbo theming~!Introduction to sass & compass

Who are you man?

@AlmogBaku nice to meet ya`

1. Lean entrepreneur2. CEO at GoDisco

3. Web developer for almost 9 years

http://www.AlmogBaku.com

What are we going to talk about?

•Why traditional CSS is sucks?•Say hello to Sass!•How to Sass? (and compass! dah?)

•Sass with Drupal!

Why traditional CSS is sucks?

Actually- CSS is awesome!...

Without CSS, everything was looks just bad…

Why traditional CSS is sucks?

But Sass is just… better!

Why traditional CSS is sucks?

Okay.. seriously!:

1. Developing is SLOW!2. Its repetitive3. It really messy and hard to understand4. Not really reusable5. Hard to collaborate

What can we do about it?

“I wish we just have a tool to program css…”

What can we do about it?

What can we do about it?

Sass is the awesome one!Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets

(really!)

1. Compass2. Popularity / huge community3. It’s written on ruby4. It’s the future!

Say hello to Sass

• Actually – sass is dead, but we use in version 2 of sass: SCSS

• SCSS extends regular CSS.. So- you can just paste your old css.

Say hello to Sass: VariablesSCSS CSS

Say hello to Sass: VariablesSCSS CSS

Say hello to Sass: MathSCSS CSS

Say hello to Sass: MathSCSS CSS

Say hello to Sass: NestingSCSS CSS

Say hello to Sass: NestingSCSS CSS

Say hello to Sass: Mixin (like functions)SCSS CSS

Say hello to Sass: Mixin (like functions)SCSS CSS

Say hello to Sass: Mixin (like functions)SCSS CSS

Say hello to Sass: ExtendSCSS CSS

Say hello to Sass: ExtendSCSS CSS

Say hello to Sass: Import

Multiple files compiled to one file!

Tip!:files with underline prefix such as “_components.scss”will not compile, and will use as asset!

Say hello to Sass: Even more!

You do even more!:

• Loops• If statements• Color manipulation• Plugins

Say hello to Sass: Compiling

1. Automatic minification2. Automatic aggregation (using @import)

3. Compiling is really easy!1. The cool geeky way - using command line2. Using GUI software such as Scout (yakk!)

Say hello to Sass: compiling

Awesome right?

How to sass?

SCSS is quite simple right?..

But we are hungry for more!..

Meet CompassCompass is a framework for using sass..

Compass

Compass

Compass allow us to do much more with sass:1. Cool built-in mixings

2. Automated sprites!

3. Powerful CLI

4. Reset CSS5. Much more..

Compass: mixins1. Powerful built-in mixins!2. Built-in mixing are cross-browser!

No need to care about “-moz” or “-webkit”..

• CSS3 mixins:Border-radius, gradients, text-shadow, box-shadow, opacity, and much more..

• Helpers:Font-types, colors, image dimensions, and much more..

• TypographyHorizontal list, delimited list, text replacement, and much more

• More..

Compass: sprites

We can easily make sprites!

1 2

3

3

-or-

Da dam!

Susy

Susy is an compass pluginSusy made responsive grids easy!

Zurb Foundation

• Foundation is front-end framework• Built on top of sass/compass• Help you build fast prototyping

Workflow & production

• Compiling is actually easy! just one command

For developing phase:

(will watch for every change in your files, than compile)

For production phase:

~$ compass watch

~$ compass compile -e production --force

For Drupal

• With ruby(command line): Just as usual

• Zen theme(theme framework) already use sass!

• Sasson – Israeli open source theme, will help you develop rapid sass for Drupal.

Questions?

Thank you!Do you define yourself as “pro” developer?Heard about AngularJs? Symfony2? And all the heavy stuff?

If you’re young, cool guy/pal, and looking for adventures.. We are looking for you!