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Published inApr 2013
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Ben Frain
Ben Frain
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Ben Frain has been a web designer/developer since 1996. He is currently employed as a UI-UX Technical Lead at bet365. Before the web, he worked as an underrated (and modest) TV actor and technology journalist, having graduated from Salford University with a degree in Media and Performance. He has written four equally underrated (his opinion) screenplays and still harbors the (fading) belief he might sell one. Outside of work, he enjoys simple pleasures: playing indoor football while his body and wife still allow it and wrestling with his two sons.
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In this chapter, we have learned how important it is to understand partial files for easy compartmentalization of code. We now also understand the various ways we can comment code, enabling us to write more legible and maintainable Sass files that are easier for us and others to work with.

We also now understand the mechanics of the config.rb file—how we can use it to alter output styles, output comments to aid debugging, and alter the paths for the output CSS.

I think we have covered all the essential groundwork now. Hopefully you are feeling like Daniel-san from Karate Kid*—the essentials have bedded in and it's now time to start with the good stuff.

In the next chapter, we are going to learn and master the workhorse tools of writing Sass: nesting, placeholders, @extend, and mixins. The "wow" stuff starts here.

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*If you have not seen Karate Kid, don't worry. It's not essential to understanding Sass and Compass. Besides, it could lead to you spending too long standing on one foot...

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Ben Frain

Ben Frain has been a web designer/developer since 1996. He is currently employed as a UI-UX Technical Lead at bet365. Before the web, he worked as an underrated (and modest) TV actor and technology journalist, having graduated from Salford University with a degree in Media and Performance. He has written four equally underrated (his opinion) screenplays and still harbors the (fading) belief he might sell one. Outside of work, he enjoys simple pleasures: playing indoor football while his body and wife still allow it and wrestling with his two sons.
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