Skip to main
Link
Miriam Suzanne answers questions on SitePoint

Sass Toolkits, Live Q&A

I did a live Q&A at SitePoint in August, talking about:

  • Customizing Susy for your projects
  • Other ways to do layouts (and why you might not even need a toolkit)
  • How to select a toolkit, or build your very own!

To be clear: now that we have border-box sizing, grid math can be much simpler. Complex math is only required if you are using margin-based gutters. Move your gutters into padding, and the math is simple. That’s why I don’t use Susy (or any grid system) much any more. percentage(1/5) works great in Sass - and flexbox takes care of the rest.

You can read a summary of the conversation as well – but it leaves out some good bits. ;)

Mia from behind, standing at a laptop - speaking to a conference audience and gesturing to one side

Cascading Style Systems

A workshop on resilient & maintainable CSS

by Miriam

New CSS features are shipping at an unprecedented rate – cascade layers, container queries, the :has() selector, subgrid, nesting, and so much more. It’s a good time to step back and understand how these tools fit together in a declarative system – a resilient cascade of styles.

Register for the October workshop »

  1. FD logo repeated on a red background
    Link post type

    5 Questions for Miriam Suzanne

    Miriam Suzanne at Frontend Dogma on

    I talked with Jens Oliver Meiert over at Frontend Dogma about our work here at OddBird, what’s happening in the CSS Working Group, and advice for getting started in frontend development.

    see all Link posts
  2. 12 Days of Web
    Link post type

    CSS @scope

    Keep selector conflicts to a minimum

    Miriam Suzanne at 12 Days of Web on

    The new @scope rule is here! It’s a better way to keep our component styles contained – without relying on third-party tools or extreme naming conventions.

    see all Link posts
  3. A close up of the hands of a person handing a package to another person.
    Link post type

    Sass Package Importer (Request for Comments)

    A new proposal for importing from NPM packages in Sass

    James Stuckey Weber at Sass Blog on

    UI libraries like Vuetify and Bootstrap make it easy to extend their themes by providing Sass source files with their NPM packages. Now, Sass is requesting feedback on a simpler way to import those libraries into your Sass styles with e.g. @use "pkg:bootstrap".

    see all Link posts

OddNews Sign Up

Get the latest news in front-end development — CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and UX. See Archive