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Jump Start Sass, by Miriam Suzanne and Kitty Giraudel

How to Write Beautiful Sass

Excerpt from Jump Start Sass, chapter 11

Clean, beautiful code should be a goal in every project. If other developers need to make a change, they should be able to read what is there and understand it. Readable code is the core of maintainability. This excerpt from Miriam’s book, Jump Start Sass will help get you started writing beautiful Sass.

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