From the course: SharePoint Framework for Developers: 1 Understanding the Toolchain
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What is Sass?
From the course: SharePoint Framework for Developers: 1 Understanding the Toolchain
What is Sass?
- [Instructor] Next let's talk about SASS which stands for Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets or as they like to call it CSS with superpowers. The way I like to think of SASS is you know like how TypeScript makes JavaScript more manageable, bearable, gives you the tools to sort of bring it into the modern world and allow you to create very complicated programs that scale better, that are more maintainable? SASS does exactly the same thing for CSS. So, classically speaking, we don't have the capability of things like variables or functions or inheritance, various operations in CSS. SASS brings all of that capability into CSS. Now, SharePoint Framework takes a big dependence on SASS for a very good reason. It is a platform worth investing in. So, in this chapter I'll be introducing you to SASS. Technically it is possible to write SharePoint Framework solutions with just plain CSS. I wouldn't recommend doing so, because SASS just adds so much value and isolation on your web parts of the…
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