The front end workflow is constantly evolving. In the last few years, preprocessors and build tools have taken the main stage to help us write our code quickly and modularly. There’s no doubt that they’re incredibly helpful today, but are they going to be right for the future of the web? In this talk I’ll discuss possible performance problems with preprocessors through numerical analysis of generated CSS (considering file size when using nesting, extends, and gzip), and look forward to changes in the web that will dramatically reduce our reliance on preprocessors (post-processors, the death of vendor prefixing, CSS variables, HTTP/2, web components, element queries, and more).
Speaker Bio
Alan is a front end developer with a design background and a passion for great interfaces. In his free time, he dabbles in iOS development, pokes around in back end code, and builds hot tubs in his back yard.
CSS is dead, long live CSS
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The front end workflow is constantly evolving. In the last few years, preprocessors and build tools have taken the main stage to help us write our code quickly and modularly. There’s no doubt that they’re incredibly helpful today, but are they going to be right for the future of the web? In this talk I’ll discuss possible performance problems with preprocessors through numerical analysis of generated CSS (considering file size when using nesting, extends, and gzip), and look forward to changes in the web that will dramatically reduce our reliance on preprocessors (post-processors, the death of vendor prefixing, CSS variables, HTTP/2, web components, element queries, and more).
Speaker Bio
Alan is a front end developer with a design background and a passion for great interfaces. In his free time, he dabbles in iOS development, pokes around in back end code, and builds hot tubs in his back yard.