As we showed earlier, you can use the sass command to take a. We can also watch a file or folder for changes before generating the new. We can use task runners like Gulp or Grunt to manage or Sass or Less files. Task runners are usually JavaScript that handle various tasks for a web site platform including preprocessing Sass, checking for syntax issues, and concatenating/minifying. This method is very helpful and worth some time to learn about, but it’s out of scope for this course. Some integrated development environments (IDE) also are able to handle processing your Sass or Less files. Popular front-end IDEs include Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, Atom, and WebStorm. We will be using Visual Studio Code to access Node-Sass to process out. If using the command line is a bit overwhelming, you can roll the preprocessor into your workflow by using a simple GUI on your development machine and compile as you go. Several applications are available for Sass and Less. Some of those available applications are: CodeKitĬodeKit is a GUI interface for dealing with Sass and Less and currently is only available on the Mac. Install CodeKit to avoid setting up preprocessing via the command line. It’s as simple as dragging the files you want to compile into CodeKit’s GUI. CodeKit watches those files, and recompiles every time you make a change. Basically, every time you save your code and update the index.html file, CodeKit generates the CSS file and it automatically updates the browser. In addition to preprocessing, CodeKit includes script minification, image compression, and code hinting. Compass.appĬompass.app is a versatile multi-platform GUI that compiles Compass, which is a framework for Sass. Compass is a style sheet authoring framework that makes your style sheets and markup easier to build and maintain. With Compass, you write your style sheets in Sass instead of CSS, without having to use the command line. Compass.app is written in Java (JRuby), and works in Mac, Windows, and Linux. You do not need to install the Ruby environment first to use it. GhostLab is a Mac-based app that compiles Sass and tests responsive design across a variety of devices and browsers. It supports Sass and Less, tracking changes to local files and refreshing them on all connected clients. GhostLab has two modes of synchronizing which page to load and when, automatically loading the most recent HTML content with one-click synchronization. Hammer is a web development tool for Mac that automatically compiles Sass to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In addition, Hammer builds, previews, and publishes static HTML sites and templates.
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