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Progressive enhancement with @supports (video)

With @supports, we can start using features that will come to CSS soon in supporting browsers today.

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CSS that has a tail wind

In utility-first CSS, we do not limit ourselves to single classes. Instead, we use many small classes that each add small pieces of styling.

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Writing utility-first CSS with Sass

In utility-first CSS, many classes are very similar. We can auto-generate many of them using maps and loops in Sass.

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How to name color-variables in Sass

Color variables defined with CSS preprocessors are easier to manage if we map them to semantic names first.

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Writing BEM-style CSS with Sass

The &-operator in Sass can greatly reduce the typing work required when using BEM in your stylesheets.

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grunt-contrib-sass and Node.js 0.10.8

The current versions of Node.js and grunt-contrib-sass don’t work together. Downgrade Node.js to an earlier version to avoid the issue.

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Writing high-performance CSS

Aside from the established best practices for reducing load times, a few things that can be done to stylesheets to make browsers render pages faster.

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Understanding CSS hierarchy-matching

Understanding the concept behind how browsers match CSS-selectors and HTML helps us write better stylesheets.

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