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title = "Less Web Development Essentials - Bass Jobsen"
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date = 2016-08-02
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tags = ["books", "bass jobsen", "reviews", "css", "less", "web development",
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"it", "2 stars"]
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22130122-less-web-development-essentials):
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Written in a practical and concise manner, this book is a crash-course in
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teaching you the fundamental concepts of Less with real-life examples and
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problems. If you use CSS(3) in your web development tasks and would love to
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learn how to create maintainable and reusable code with Less, this book is
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ideal for you. Although you need to have some experience in web development,
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even beginners will find that this book is useful.
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{{ stars(stars=2) }}
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Less is a compiler for CSS. Why do I feel I need to start a review with that?
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Because this book focuses a lot more on CSS than Less. Actually, I may have
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learnt more about CSS than what it was expected to learn. There is nothing
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wrong talking more about the base technology when the piece you're talking
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about is built on it, but when you talk a lot more about the first and not the
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second, you have to seriously reconsider your book title.
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Another thing that annoys me is when the author keeps talking about the
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examples outside the book. "Check the examples which you can download in the
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previous URL" is lazy explanation. Instead of building knowledge blocks and
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then expand over them, the book uses the lazy escape of not telling you
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anything and expecting yo to read things somewhere else.
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In the end, it's a nice book to learn a thing or two about modern CSS, but
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barely something good about Less.
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