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by have_faith 3186 days ago
On the CSS side you'll want to learn Flexbox, Sass, Auto-prefixer (life saver), and maybe something like BEM naming conventions for "regular" websites. There are CSS-in-JS options if you're building large web apps with something like React or Angular but it's still up for debate if this approach is better.

On the design side it's difficult to know what to recommend. I would learn simple UI/UX principles. Lots of designers use either Sketch or Adobe Experience Design as opposed to something like photoshop these days. Makes for much quicker prototyping of designs.
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amirouche 3186 days ago
I tried sass on rather big project where several people contribute to it. It seems like Sass doesn't help keep the code clean. A scheme like css-architecture [1] or oocss is required to keep the css code manageable.

[1] https://github.com/jareware/css-architecture

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larzang 3186 days ago
Sure, SASS is just a power-tool, it still requires a sane architecture.

CSS of any flavor should be modular and semantic, it's just that SASS gives you a big leg up once you're comfortable with those concepts. It's still on you not to shoot your leg off with criss-crossing @extends and deeply nested selectors and and snowflake components.

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