What is Jade ? O.o and Sass ??
These are stuff used in Web Designing! I am currently learning Web Development stuff and creating sites, so I came across a few terms which sounded weird at first but then later, the concepts sounded cool!
Let's start with Sass!
Sass is a CSS preprocessor. Now, now. What is that ? And preprocessor ? CSS is the stylesheet you use in websites. And when you make really big websites, with lots of styles and stuff, it becomes really tough to maintain the stylesheet. It will have may be 100s of lines or may be a lot more when it comes to huge websites. And many components of the site will have some related or similar properties. So, when you change the styles, you have to change the related ones too! That's tiring! And then you gotta take care of writing styles based on different browsers, like Firefox, Chrome, IE.
What if you could use variables and also reuse code in CSS ? And use some more concepts of programming in here, to make life easier ? That's what Sass does!
You write code in a special language, with variables, nesting and stuff and then compile it to get CSS files.
To understand better, read this !
http://sass-lang.com/guide
or see this :
Understand CSS preprocessors in 60 Seconds !
If you are really too much into Web Designing and stuff, you must look into other CSS preprocessors too ! Like Less, Stylus etc
Few Other CSS preprocessors
So, What is Jade now?
When I first checked out about Jade, I understood that : Jade is to HTML, like how Sass is to CSS. Jade is like a HTML preprocessor. But it's called a template engine. Just some jargons. Look at this to understand more !
http://jade-lang.com/
Understand Jade in 60 Seconds !
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