Setting up a CSS build process with Gulp
What is a build process?
It’s essentially just a sequence of tasks that are performed automatically and generate the files ready to be deployed.
We are going to implement a CSS build process that will compile Sass, prefix and compress our CSS.
Why Sass?
CSS is getting more powerful day by day, there are many CSS methodologies (I wrote an article about CSS methodologies if you want to go deep in the argument) that help us to write more maintainable and scalable CSS code, but these methodologies alone aren’t enough to solve the problem of maintaining large CSS codebases.
That’s where Sass comes into play. Sass provides us features that regular CSS doesn’t have, using Sass we can write more readable, maintainable and reusable CSS code.
Sass has become the most used CSS pre-processor in the front-end universe. Also some of the best front-end frameworks like Bootstrap and Foundation have been developed with Sass.
Sass lets you use many interesting functionalities like variables, nested syntax, mathematical operations, mixins, loops, functions, imports and more.
