⌨️ A beginner's guide to Sass

Hey coders! Today, I bring you a complete beginner’s guide to Sass, one of the most popular and optimized CSS pre-processors available out there. 🚀🌎

☝️ Sass stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheet. It is completely free and perfectly compatible with all versions of CSS. Being a pre-processor, Sass extends the default capabilities of CSS and enables us to use programming language features in our code. 🦄

Some key features of Sass include:

🏷 Variables: Store reusable values like colors, fonts, or any CSS value to make your stylesheets more maintainable. Example: $primary-color: #333;

🪜 Nesting: Nest your CSS selectors in a way that follows the same visual hierarchy of your HTML, making your styles more readable.

🧩 Mixins: Create reusable blocks of styles that can be included in other selectors. They can accept arguments for dynamic behavior. Basically reusable CSS blocks, include with @include.

🧮 Functions: Define reusable functions that return a value, useful for calculations or value manipulations, normally being used within CSS properties. Sass also provides with some built-in functions, such as “darken($color, $amount)” which makes a color darker or “percentage($number)” which converts a number to a percentage.

📦 Modules: Just like any other programming language, Sass lets you organize your code into separate files and use the @use rule to load them, helping to keep your styles maintainable.

👑 Inheritance: Share a set of CSS properties from one selector to another using the @extend directive, making your code DRY.

➕➗ Operators: Perform mathematical operations directly within your Sass code to dynamically calculate values without resorting to the calc() function.