When I was studying Multimedia I got a free copy of PhpStorm.
Using PhpStorm I managed to some techincal magic using Ruby(I can't exactly remember how it worked) to write code in SCSS and phpstorm would automatically create a new file and compile all my code to usable CSS code.
I believe I remember something about a 'filewatcher' but im not sure.
Is there any way to do the same in Brackets?
maybe an addon to Brackets or something?
Thanks
I think you're talking about compilers that translate SCSS into CSS (and their integration in PhpStorm).
So maybe you will be interested in Brackets-SASS Plugin.
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I am creating a website using Drupal 8 and I found a free theme online which I have installed on my site. The theme consists of multiple folders of CSS files. I would like to use SASS to extend and modify this theme. If I want to do this, is it as simple as renaming all the files to SCSS files and compile using Gulp or Compass? Or is there a better practice to follow? Any guidance would be appreciated. Thanks!
There's no need to make any kind of conversion.
You can just change the file extension if you need to.
The SCSS syntax uses the file extension .scss. With a few small
exceptions, it’s a superset of CSS, which means essentially all valid
CSS is valid SCSS as well. Because of its similarity to CSS, it’s the
easiest syntax to get used to and the most popular.
From https://sass-lang.com/documentation/syntax
I am new to sass/scss and want to know how I can use sass file in my HTML project?
Do I have to first compile it into CSS with command line or anything else that compiles scss/sass runtime into css file at a time when webpage loads into browser?
So any help?
There are many options to create a Project working with SASS, but the most common is using Compass, I see you're new to it, I strongly recommend you read a Tutorial about Compass, after understanding this you should look others options to use the same SASS like working with gulp, gulp-sass, node-sass, browser-sync, and many other options to use the same Tool.
I have a question about SCSS. I am new at this, so if I'm not providing enough information please let me know so that I can update my question.
I am currently working on a Wordpress installation that has an SCSS directory, with all of the various .scss files.
I tried editing the files directly, and came across a lot of issues. I did some research, and it looks like the scss needs to be compiled into css so that the site can read it. Issue is, no matter how I try, it just simply doesn't work. The site styles break, and the updated code won't work. I know I can change the css directly, but I understand that if the scss is recompiled it will remove my direct css changes.
Any help would be so appreciated.
If you don't have any way to compile the SASS to CSS then an easy way to translate your code is by using sassmeister.
As stated by Rob Dodson, style tags are now unavoidable with Web Components. I am trying to find a way to use LESS with this new tecnhology without having to paste the compiled CSS in my HTML document everytime I change something in the LESS file . Is there anyway to achieve that?
I am using Polymer.
Thanks!
Laurent
You can make the client compile the LESS to CSS , you should definitely take a look at this :
http://lesscss.org/#client-side-usage
It is advised to compile it yourself to css in a production environment though !
Doing this client-side hardly seems like the corrent solution, especially at scale. For instance, do you really want 1000 web components in your app all including LessCSS and compiling on the client side?
Just compile server-side and include the compiled version in your html import. Apps like DocPad, make this a lot easier. For instance:
src/documents/components/my-component/my-component.css.less is your source file, and is compiled to out/components/my-component/my-component.css, which is accessible at /compoennt/my-component/my-component.css.
We use this workflow to also make use of javascript pre-processors like coffeescript, as well as post-processors like css auto prefixer, and bundlers like Browserify. See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23050527/130638 for more info.
Simply compile your less and embed the generated CSS file via good old link tag.
I don't think that rob wanted to say that using style tags is the only way to go. You can still link to external stylesheets as you always did.
Why don´t you compile on server side using php compiler? Have a look here - http://leafo.net/lessphp/ -
To let you know, i´m using this compiler on my projects, on the server side without any kind of problems!!!!!!! :) IMO, it´s better to have the compilation work on the server side. I´m not totally 100% sure, but i think IE8 don´t recognize text/less
The way I have done this before is have individual .less or .scss file for each component and have it compile into the individual .css file which is then called into the respective component file. and finally vulcanize everything into a single file.
Incase you want to use a single CSS file, then use //deep// combinator or ::shadow pseudo elements in the CSS.
If you able to create the custom elements without using ShadowDOM then you can simply have all your less merge into a single CSS.
Honestly speaking I was unable to create a wc without shadowDOM in polymer. There is a long conversation on github on enabling / disabling and hacking a way to create a wc without shadowDOM here https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/issues/222
One solution would be to have the preprocessor translate .less files into .css and then linking them inside Polymer components, like explained in the official documentation: https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/docs/devguide/styling#external-stylesheets
Unfortunately this is deprecated. So the other way to go could be to have another step that wraps the preprocessor-generated css files with a dom-module: this way you can follow the Polymer way including the style module inside your components, or using the css file compiled from less if you do things outside Polymer components.
I'm using Gulp for my build process and I found this module very useful:
https://github.com/MaKleSoft/gulp-style-modules
It creates, for every .less file I have in my sources, an .html file with a dom-module wrapped around it, ready to be included in the components' styles.
I'm using lesscss, the 'framework/compiler' for css. My IDE, dreamweaver, does not recognize .less as CSS. So no niceties such as error checking or code completion there. Is there anything I can do about that?
Dreamweaver can be configured to recognize "new" filetypes and treat them as editable under preferences. You can also edit some config files to help DreamWeaver figure out how to treat the files so it does code highlighting, etc., though in my experience, it does not always work as you would expect. On the other hand, can lesscss be configured to output .css files?
Here's an Adobe article on getting Dreamweaver to add new file types.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/164/tn_16410.html
less syntax highlighter extention
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=2756522#
You can force DW to "recognize the files" although not parsing as far as I know. This might be of help : http://blog.assortedgarbage.com/2012/03/using-dreamweaver-with-sass-and-less/ that might be of help
Try giving the extension: less.css, to your css file.
Example: styles.less.css.
This worked for me, but I still need a base stylesheet, such as: styles.css.
Also,
You can compile .less files to .css directly from within Dreamweaver using a free (Donation-ware) plugin:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=2692522
Dreamweaver has a very hard time with LESS, in my experience. It doesn't properly handle nesting and will color those as though they are syntax errors. However, it is mostly workable since the auto-complete does at least still work, and the overall coloring is okay on everything except nested items. (at least for me)
Also the extensions that are referenced above do not work on mac.
If you are having trouble getting DW to be able to open and color code LESS at all, try this--
1) Change some DW config files:
For Mac users, there are TWO configuration folders (at least for DW5.5). Two sets of identical files, FOUR in total files, have to be changed:
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS5.5/en_US/Configuration/DocumentTypes/MMDocumentTypes.xml
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS5.5/en_US/Configuration/Extensions.txt
and -
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5/Configuration/DocumentTypes/MMDocumentTypes.xml
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5/Configuration/Extensions.txt
And this technote tells you what exactly to change in those files:
http://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/change-add-recognized-file-extensions.html
Install a LESS Compiler
and for those on mac, this little app works GREAT. All it does is watch your less files and automatically save them to css on save.
http://incident57.com/less/
I hope that is helpful to someone!
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=2756522#
This actually does all that and more, as CSS and less have a little different syntax specially when it comes to nesting rules inside one another.