Chapter 1. Foundations and Tools

It is important to learn about the foundations in each area. You need to have basic information to be a professional. Good usage of tools is almost as important as the foundation. Without good tools, your foundation won't be used well.

This chapter is about tools that will help to build better CSS code. It describes features of preprocessors and finally the foundation knowledge about SASS. In this chapter, you can get basic knowledge about automatization of repeatable processes in frontend development with GULP.js. Finally, you can find an example of file structure, which will partialize your project into small, easy to edit, and maintainable files.

In this chapter, we will: