Sass VS postcss-preset-env

SASS(.scss) [ https://sass-lang.com ]

Traditionally CSS lacked features such as variables, nesting, mixins, and functions. This was frustrating for Developers as it often led to CSS quickly becoming complex and cumbersome. In an attempt to make code easier and less repetitive CSS pre-processors were born. You would write CSS in the format the pre-processor understood and, at build time, you'd have some nice CSS. The most common pre-processors these days are Sass, Less, and Stylus. Any examples I give going forward will be about Sass as that's what I'm most familiar with.

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, and is a scripting language used to style web pages. SCSS stands for Syntactically Awesome Style Sheet, and is a superset of CSS. You can think of SCSS as the more advanced version of CSS, which comes with several features that CSS does not support, such as the SCSS nested syntax, as shown below.

Scss

In the past, you’d need to rely on pre-processors such as SaSS or Less, but not anymore… Native CSS nesting has landed on all major modern browsers.

Sass is also a css preprocessor. Op is likely confused

sass -> An improvement over CSS. It provides nice features for managing CSS. good for mid-sized or even larger projects.

Sass (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets) - A CSS preprocessor that simplifies and enhances your CSS workflow. Website: https://sass-lang.com/

Personally, my preference is Sass: I find that the mixins, partials, and operators are hugely useful when it comes to creating re-usable snippets of code for a design system. And, since it’s “just” a pre-processor and not a framework, it’s not opinionated in a design sense and there’s no default values (colors, spacing values, etc.) that will need to be overwritten.

Preprocessors: SSGs leverage preprocessors to streamline the development process. Preprocessors like SASS for CSS or Babel for JavaScript offer additional features and simplify code development.

Switching from a ready-made tool like Sass or a recommendation package like cssnext (deprecated since 2019) or PostCSS Preset Env (archived in 2022), to the modular PostCSS Preset Env plugin set we can choose a helpful and convenient set of future CSS features beyond the current stable client CSS.

To enable the future CSS there is also a plugin called PostCSS Preset Env. This plugin will take the unreleased CSS selectors and change it to the present usable CSS. More info at PostCSS Preset Env

Third, we enable the postcss-preset-env plugin, which adds support for many other cool things

My PostCSS Config contains postcss-preset-env already which should support for CSS nesting. I also installed postcss-nested & postcss-css-variables, just in case.

To solve this I used postcss-preset-env, which allowed me to define a "custom-media" with the name --viewport-lg and the value (min-width: 1024px). As postcss-preset-env also supported nested CSS this allowed for some pretty readable CSS.

If you use PostCSS, postcss-preset-env[1] is pretty neat for reading up on the latest features. E.g. here is the place properties feature[2].

1: https://preset-env.cssdb.org/

postcss-preset-env - it lets you use some cutting-edge CSS but understandable by modern browsers.

https://stylelint.io https://github.com/csstools/postcss-preset-env