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willkey
willkey
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Posted by willkey
willkey
3,650 Points

SASS or SCSS?

Should I learn SASS or SCSS? and which one of these is used by professional web developers? As I am working through the Front End Web Development track, aiming to land a job as a front end web developer.

2 Answers

willkey
willkey
3,650 Points
willkey
willkey
3,650 Points

O right thanks. From what I can see. sass and scss is almost the same, except that scss uses the following characters

{ } ;

Am I right or is there more to it.

Shehan Dissanayake
Shehan Dissanayake
19,119 Points
Shehan Dissanayake
Shehan Dissanayake
19,119 Points

"Sass has two syntaxes. The most commonly used syntax is known as “SCSS” (for “Sassy CSS”), and is a superset of CSS3’s syntax. This means that every valid CSS3 stylesheet is valid SCSS as well. SCSS files use the extension .scss.

The second, older syntax is known as the indented syntax (or just “.sass”). Inspired by Haml’s terseness, it’s intended for people who prefer conciseness over similarity to CSS. Instead of brackets and semicolons, it uses the indentation of lines to specify blocks. Files in the indented syntax use the extension .sass.

Explanation of SASS vs SCSS on the sass-lang.com website

You can find a good article here