[Noisebridge WebDev] [Noisebridge-discuss] Frontend Web Development, Monday 8pm: Preprocessors

[Garrett Smith]

On 3/30/13, Jeffrey Carl Faden <jeffreyatw at gmail.com> wrote:
> Monday's class will expand upon the topic of backend web apps by talking
> about preprocessor languages - languages which compile into HTML, CSS, or
> JS. We've taken a look at PHP and ERB, but we'll also walked through
> languages that look nothing like HTML (HAML), and languages that compile
> into CSS (Less, Sass + Compass) and JS (CoffeeScript). These languages can
> make your life much easier as they help keep you from repeating yourself
> (DRY!).
Unnecessary abstractions that make debugging harder.
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Garrett
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