Animating content is an almost de facto part of building modern sites – this can be something as simple as providing subtle effects on form labels, right through to providing a complex background slider. We've covered a lot of useful tips and tricks throughout this chapter, so let's take a moment to review what we've learned.

The theme for this chapter has been about making the transition (sorry, pun intended!) from using vanilla CSS or SASS to PostCSS; we kicked off with a quick recap of the types of animation available.

This was swiftly followed by a look at some of the methods available for starting to make the transition away from standard CSS, such as using prebuilt animation libraries, or using CSS3 transitions. We then switched to covering how similar animations would look within SASS, so we can compare use of libraries such as Animate.css, before starting the switch to using PostCSS.

We started this part of the journey by exploring the various plugins available, before converting our code to use PostCSS equivalent styles. We then took things up a step, by creating a simple demo using PostCSS, before rounding out the chapter with a look at a simple animation plugin created for PostCSS, which is based on the Magic Animation set of animations.

Phew - we've certainly covered a lot! But our journey doesn't stop there. In the next chapter, we'll explore some of the tips and tricks we can use to create plugins within PostCSS. No longer are we limited to what is available from others; we can now begin to create our own plugins instead...