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LESS WEB DEVELOPMENT COOKBOOK

Over 110 practical recipes to help you write leaner, more efficient CSS code

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|Feb 2015
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Key Features

    Book Description

    Aimed at those who want to overcome the limitations of CSS, through this book you will begin to harness the efficiency of Less by building advanced, responsive, and modern websites. Experienced web developers, students, and even web designers will find this guide very useful as they enhance their CSS skills.

    What you will learn

    • Integrate Less into your projects to boost efficiency
    • Spend less time debugging
    • Compile Less code into readable and maintainable CSS
    • Write reusable and portable code and avoid duplication
    • Make use of prebuilt and proven code
    • Reduce the development and maintenance time of your projects
    • Set up a development environment with Grunt

    Who this book is for

    Aimed at those who want to overcome the limitations of CSS, through this book you will begin to harness the efficiency of Less by building advanced, responsive, and modern websites. Experienced web developers, students, and even web designers will find this guide very useful as they enhance their CSS skills.

    Table of Contents

    1. Install the client and server side compiler and the basics of LESS
    2. Debug and test your LESS code
    3. Using Variables and Mixins
    4. Using LESS built functions
    5. Extending and referencing
    6. Advanced LESS coding
    7. Using External Mixin Libraries
    8. Building a layout with LESS
    9. Using Twitter Bootstrap with LESS
    10. LESS and WordPress
    11. Compiling Less Real-Time for Development using Grunt
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78398-149-6
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2015 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2015
    Language: English
    Pages: 394