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Thorstein Nordby
Thorstein Nordby
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Posted by Thorstein Nordby
Thorstein Nordby
17,115 Points

Course for Bourbon and Neat

You did a course for Compass, cool!

Will you do the same for Bourbon and Neat?

Bourbon is cooler 8)

4 Answers

Kevin Lozandier
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Kevin Lozandier
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Kevin Lozandier
Kevin Lozandier
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Do note, I'm not even mentioning equally amazing but more robust Sass grid libraries such as singularitygs and suzy compared to Neat. There can frankly be a class entirely dedicated to Sass grid systems, to be honest.

Kevin Lozandier
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Kevin Lozandier
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Kevin Lozandier
Kevin Lozandier
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Hi, Thorstein Nordby:

Being a user of both (you don't have to choose one over the other thanks to compass-neat & compass-bourbon), they're straightforward enough to have a workshop or Forums video about them.

It's subjective to say Bourbon's cooler since a great deal of their use cases in the past are moot thanks to Autoprefixer, and the fact you can again use them both.

And there's many advantages of using both: You can keep Compass's unrivaled handling of sprites & unique mixins they provide.

Anika Jaffara
Anika Jaffara
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Anika Jaffara
Anika Jaffara
20,364 Points

Hi, Thorstein!

I was actually hoping for a deep dive into Bourbon. I get that it's not really that deep of a dive, but pairing Compass, Foundation, Jekyll, Bootstrap and Bourbon with methods for using them together and/or on Rails would be awesome.

Kevin Lozandier
Kevin Lozandier
Courses Plus Student 53,747 Points

Even though I've mentioned compass-neat and compass-bourbon, some argue they shouldn't be used together, so it may be actually beneficial to have the CSS Frameworks class be expanded to include bourbon and neat.

They're both awesome, but a new class may be warranted, Sass Frameworks, since their positives and stance on a lot of things about architecting the design of your stylesheets is not necessarily class-oriented or CSS-oriented, but Sass-oriented towards cleaner and significantly smaller amount of classes and ids needed to annotate your site towards being a site that's aesthetically pleasing but still very much maintainable.

That said, do note that Thoughtbot have a design class that gives you opportunities to learn a lot about Bourbon and they've had a dedicated class about both once ( I've taken the design class and I'm a Thoughtbot Learn student) .