{"id":8345,"date":"2014-01-21T17:07:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T22:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2014-01-21T17:07:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T22:07:15","slug":"why-sass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/21\/why-sass\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Sass?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/article\/why-sass\">Dan Cederholm<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/article\/why-sass\"><p>CSS is anything but DRY. At times, it drips with repeated rules, declarations, and values. We&rsquo;re constantly writing the same snippets of code for colors, fonts, and frequently-used patterns of style throughout our stylesheets. One look through a decent-sized CSS file, and a DRY software developer will weep, first with bewilderment, then frustration.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Sass is a CSS preprocessor&mdash;a layer between the stylesheets you author and the <tt>.css<\/tt> files you serve to the browser. Sass (short for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) plugs the holes in CSS as a language, allowing you to write DRY code that&rsquo;ll be faster, more efficient, and easier to maintain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems like ultimately this sort of thing should be built into CSS itself, though.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Cederholm: CSS is anything but DRY. At times, it drips with repeated rules, declarations, and values. We&rsquo;re constantly writing the same snippets of code for colors, fonts, and frequently-used patterns of style throughout our stylesheets. One look through a decent-sized CSS file, and a DRY software developer will weep, first with bewilderment, then frustration. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[338,729,96],"class_list":["post-8345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-css","tag-syntactically-awesome-style-sheets-sass","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}