weather-app VS Sass

Previously on this challenge, we talked about sass's new import system and also set up everything we needed for our project. If you haven't read my previous blog I suggest you first of all Read It Here and then proceed. If you don't know about this challenge, well this is just a fun challenge in which I complete one of DevChallenges.io challenge and blog my entire journey. This is Day 2 of my challenge and the entire day I completed the design mockups. If you want to follow along then visit my GitHub Repo.

Well, only this much I have set up on day 1. I will keep posting till the project is completed. I will also share what I learned each day while creating this project. If you want to create this project on your own don't forget to visit DevChallenges and if you want to view my code, visit my GitHub Repo. If you want to talk more about anything don't forget to comment. And if you want to learn more about @use and @forward then I will highly suggest you watch this YouTube Video from Kevin Powell.

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.