Benefits of SaaS Over Conventional CSS

SaaS is a preprocessor that enhances the usability of CSS. It stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheet. SaaS provides the ability to create variables which helps to reuse again and again wherever required.

$blue: #004BB5;

$ubuntu-font: 'Ubuntu', 'Arial', 'Helvetica', sans-serif;

$nunito-font: 'Nunito', 'Arial', 'Helvetica', sans-serif;

Once the variable created, you can use anywhere where you need

h2 {

font: $ubuntu-font;

color: $blue;

}

h4 {

font: $nunito-font;

background-color: $blue;

padding: 6px;

}

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SaaS allows you to use in a nesting loop, which reduces the number of lines by avoiding writing the full html tag structure again and again. It provides benefits in nesting
1. Easy to read
2. Prevent rewrite selectors multiple times
3. More maintainable code

SaaS provides a special feature named Mixin. When variables or styles are used multiple times then it becomes hatic to use, for ease of this, mixin is used. It is like a function which return a value or set of values and take parameters including default values.

@mixin set-fonts( $family: 'Ubuntu' , $weight: 400 , $style: normal ) {

font-family: $family , 'Arial', 'Helvetica', sans-serif;

font-style: $style;

font-weight: $weight;

}

Using mixin

h1 {

@include set-fonts;

color: $blue;

}

This will be complied intro :

h1 {

font-family: 'Ubuntu', 'Arial', 'Helvetica', sans-serif;

font-style: normal;

font-weight: 400;

color: #004BB4;

}

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SaaS provides another special feature of importing which helps to import one file into another resulting in creating a single CSS file to run in the browser.

@import "source/font-awesome";

@import "source/slick";

@import "framework/bootstrap";

@import "my-custom-theme";

With the knowledge of SaaS ,one can customize bootstrap CSS framework. Bootstrap is developed using SaaS. It also has a large community support to make it more reliable. Through all the features described, you can opt to use SaaS over CSS. It can boost the performance by using variables, mixins and can change bootstrap styles where required.