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Do You Still Need Sass?

Theming, Design, & Usability 154 All Attendees Sat 9:45am to 10:30am (2/21/26)

With so many new features added to CSS in the past couple years, is Sass still needed in your projects? Is it time to remove Sass from your build process? What can native CSS and PostCSS do that can replace Sass functionality and how do you implement PostCSS in a Drupal 11 theme?

In this session, I will discuss an overview of current CSS features that replace functionality in Sass, and bleeding edge features that will replace Sass functionality in the future including:

  • CSS custom properties
  • Nesting
  • New color functions
  • if() and @function
  • And more!

I will also give an overview of PostCSS, what functionality it can add to your project, and how to set up PostCSS in your Drupal 11 theme.

Lastly, I will discuss when you might not want to replace Sass *just yet* and how you can use Sass AND native CSS together to take advantage of your existing build process.

It’s an exciting time to be a CSS developer and the perfect time to learn more about what CSS can do natively without using Sass.

About the Speaker

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Aubrey Sambor

Massachusetts

Aubrey Sambor is a front-end developer and lead engineer who loves creating accessible websites using clean and modern CSS. She initially learned to code in the late 90s when her high school friends told her about this cool website called Geocities. She decided she wanted a site of her own, so she bought an HTML 4 book and taught herself the ways of code. 

Aubrey graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelors degree in computer science and started her career building custom PHP web portals for clients, eventually discovering Drupal in 2008. She is passionate about design systems, accessibility, and the latest and greatest CSS techniques.

In her spare time, Aubrey loves to knit, spin her own yarn on one of her two spinning wheels, and walk on the many trails and paths throughout Massachusetts. She's left-handed and has always disliked it when her classmates took all the left-handed scissors in art class.