November 28, 2006
Sass released
Hampton Catlin committed the first public SassSyntactically Awesome StyleSheets — a CSS preprocessor adding variables, nesting, and mixins. code on November 28, 2006 — a CSSCascading Style Sheets — the language for layout, color, and typography on web pages. preprocessor adding variables, nesting, and mixins (some sources also cite an October 5, 2006 0.1.0 milestone).
What it was for
SassSyntactically Awesome StyleSheets — a CSS preprocessor adding variables, nesting, and mixins. (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets) compiled to plain CSSCascading Style Sheets — the language for layout, color, and typography on web pages. — letting teams define `$primary-color` variables, nest selectors, and share mixins across large stylesheets. Natalie Weizenbaum became lead maintainer and grew SassSyntactically Awesome StyleSheets — a CSS preprocessor adding variables, nesting, and mixins. into the dominant preprocessor of the 2010s, influencing Less, Stylus, and eventually native CSSCascading Style Sheets — the language for layout, color, and typography on web pages. features.
People
- Hampton Catlin — creator
- Natalie Weizenbaum — maintainer
Why it's here
SassSyntactically Awesome StyleSheets — a CSS preprocessor adding variables, nesting, and mixins. pioneered the CSSCascading Style Sheets — the language for layout, color, and typography on web pages. preprocessor pattern that defined front-end build pipelines for a decade.
Why it mattered
It proved developers wanted programming-language features on top of declarative CSSCascading Style Sheets — the language for layout, color, and typography on web pages..
What it solved
Large CSSCascading Style Sheets — the language for layout, color, and typography on web pages. codebases repeated values and selectors with no variables, functions, or imports.
Media
- ImageSass (style sheet language)
http://sass-lang.com/, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Related
- CSS Level 1 becomes a W3C RecommendationDecember 17, 1996
- Less CSS preprocessor introducedJune 16, 2009
- Sass 3.0 adds SCSS syntaxMay 10, 2010