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CSS Sass Basics Improve Your Workflow with Sass Extend Placeholder Selectors

Posted by Hagop Almadjian
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Hagop Almadjian
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 7,051 Points

Instead of extends cant we just use mixins and include them its the same thing

Instead of extends cant we just use mixins and include them its the same thing

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Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Extends and Mixins both have their place in my opinion.

I like Mixins as they're cleaner in the compilation. They're a nice way to package together related styles that serve a purpose, but when used with the @include directive take only one line of code to write.

Extends are extensible in another way. the '@extend' directive allows you to bring in a complete style rule in multiple places so you change all the styles in one place. One change for multiple extends. But it plays havoc a bit with your selectors in compilation and can be memory intensive.

At the end of the day, it's about what works best for you and your project. 🙂