Episode description

Topics include:

• What is PostCSS, really?
• PostCSS vs. other preprocessors like Less and Sass
• Examples of things PostCSS can do
• How to use PostCSS to add your own features to CSS
• How to disguise custom features as valid CSS so PostCSS will parse it
• Porting Tailwind CSS from Less to PostCSS and why it's been awesome

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship

Links:

• Tailwind CSS, Adam's upcoming CSS framework
• CSS Utility Classes and "Separation of Concerts", blog post explaining the motivation behind Tailwind
• PostCSS.org
• cssnext
• "Create Your Own Plugin", PostCSS tutorial at tuts+
• PostCSS API documentation