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Direct link to the article How to Write Loops with Preprocessors
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How to Write Loops with Preprocessors

Loops are one of those features that you don’t need every day. But when you do, it’s awfully nice that preprocessors can do it because native HTML and CSS cannot. …

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Chris Coyier on Nov 4, 2020
Direct link to the article Smarter Ways to Generate a Deep Nested HTML Structure
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Smarter Ways to Generate a Deep Nested HTML Structure

A look at using HTML preprocessors to generate HTML, particularly deeply nested HTML, which is useful for a variety of interesting browser art and experimentation.
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Ana Tudor on Oct 20, 2020 (Updated on Oct 21, 2020)
Direct link to the article Why Parcel Has Become My Go-To Bundler for Development
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Why Parcel Has Become My Go-To Bundler for Development

Today we’re gonna talk about application bundlers — tools that simplify our lives as developers. At their core, bundlers pick your code from multiple files and put everything all together in one or more files in a logical order that …

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Maks Akymenko on Oct 21, 2019
Direct link to the article Split
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Split

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Jeremy on the divide between the core languages of the web, and all the tooling that exists to produce code in those languages:

On the one hand, you’ve got the raw materials of the web: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This

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Shared by Chris Coyier on May 2, 2019
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What is the Future of Front End Web Development?

I was asked to do a little session on this the other day. I’d say I’m underqualified to answer the question, as is any single person. If you really needed hard answers to this question, you’d probably look to aggregate …

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Chris Coyier on May 25, 2017 (Updated on May 26, 2017)
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The Issue with Preprocessing CSS Custom Properties

CSS has Custom Properties now. We’ve written about them a bunch lately. Browser support is good, but of course, old non-evergreen browsers like Internet Explorer don’t have them and never will. I can see the appeal of authoring with …

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Chris Coyier on May 11, 2017
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Why I don’t use CSS preprocessors

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Roger Johansson:

I don’t feel the “problems” CSS preprocessors intend to solve are serious enough to warrant the cost, i.e. to me the solution is worse than the problem.

The volume of the chorus in favor of preprocessing (I sing …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Mar 29, 2016
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