Ionic is built on top of Sass, which allows us to set some default styles. SASS is nothing but a "CSS preprocessor" which is a scripting language that extends CSS by allowing developers to write code in one language and then compile it into CSS. Some examples of CSS preprocessor include: Sass, LESS etc...
Sass (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) is an extension of CSS. It allows us to create variables, nested rules, inline imports and more. We can keep things organized and it is faster to create stylesheets.