Analyse your CSS

ESSENTIAL TOOLS & TECHNIQUES TO GET PERFECT CODE EVERY TIME

THE TOP TOOLS, ESSENTIAL TECHNIQUES AND THE BEST ADVICE FOR STYLING PERFECTION CSSLinting is just like any other type of linting, in that it is “a tool that flags suspicious usage in software written in any computer language” (from the Wikipedia page on programmatic linting). Front-end developers are likely aware of JSONLint and JSLint. Well now there’s CSSLint, which analyses CSS and helps developers write CSS that conforms to a set of performance and syntax of best practices. ‘Helps’ is understating it really, CSSLint throws errors and if used as part of a build server – say, TeamCity for example – it will cause builds to fail. This is both a good and a bad thing. It means the rules are enforced with harsh penalties, but bad rules will create…

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