I am using a CSS framework, which has documentation for user-created extensions. But these extensions are all written in SASS files on GitHub.
Now this framework is only a single CSS file. But for the extensions they are requiring to use NPM, or clone the entire GitHub project, and start using SASS commands, which I'm unfamiliar with.
Is it possible that I keep the current configuration: I.e. only have the main framework CSS file, and somehow convert each extension SASS file to CSS file and add that to my /css folder? Or that's not possible?
**Edit: It's the Bulma CSS framework, and this is the link to the Extensions repository: Wikiki
If the number of files are not too much, you could convert them manually using an online sass compiler
SassMeiser is my goto choice for online Sass compilers.
Maybe if you could provide a link to the repo, we'll have more clarity on how we could deal with it.
Edit: I just went through the repo. They already have the .min.css file for each extension in dist dir. You're better off just downloading the .min.css file rather than converting it yourself. Remember, you need the .min.js files also for the extension to work.
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I'm very new to scss and css so please bear with me. I've done some research but found conflicting information.
I have 2 freelancers working on my project. Both freelancers make changes to:
style.css
style.css.map
style.scss
Everytime I merge their work I break the frontend. How can I merge their work without breaking everything?
I read online that these files should not be included in GIT? I also read that I should used GULP or LESS? Apparently, I should compile the merged code before committing? Seriously confused with the research.
How do I handle these files?
The .css file is generated from the .scss files.
Your developers should commit only in the .scss files.
In the most cases the .css file is not added to the repository at all. And you should not modify the .css file directly because it will be replaced with the next compilation of .scss the files.
GULP is just the tool that compiles the .scss files and create the css from them. Basically when using GULP you can create some functions where you can specify the input location(.scss), output location(.css) and additional rules, etc.
There are also other tools that can do this. Like Koala, Webpack.
You probably should not store generated files in git. In this case, the generated files would be the .css and .css.map files that compass (I'm assuming you use compass because of the tags) generates for you. You should store the .scss file in source control, and compile it to .css afterwards.
If the freelancers are making direct manual changes to the .css files, they should know that at each recompile those changes will be lost.
I'm dealing with an ASP.net project that's maintained by a couple of people via git.
We're looking to minify the CSS files at build time and have checked out the bundle and minify addon however this doesn't appear to offer an option for the minified code to be regenerated from the source files at each build.
Is there a better way for us to minify our source css files on each build?
Understanding your question right, you want to concat and minify your css sources and time you build or deploy.
I do not now how your build stack look like, so I can guess only, but using css files I would use something like grunt or gulp.
On my self I prefer gulp. It is easy to create a task which concat, minify or also auto prefix your css files.
Once your task is created you can add it to your build script, task or bash.
This way works also fine with CI like wercker or travis.
You can use Microsoft Ajax Minifier after build.
Explained here: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/182690/Minify-Javascript-and-CSS-using-Microsoft-Ajax-Min
Or if you have integration with Jenkins then after build step you can call bat file and run minification on folder of your build directory.
For multiple technology projects, You can create exe based on Microsoft Ajax Minifier and after all builds are done, Run this exe using bat command from Jenking only to minify all the css and js files.
I have integrated this with PHP, ASP.Net and Silverlight code after build of these projects.
One better way is to make your file to online file (like CDN link github can help you in that) and next rather then adding all those css add that link which will be saving much of the build time.
Try to minify your file.
Try to make an online link file.
I am working on a rails app and I would like to include some custom css files inside my rails application. I would like to separate out the css from bootstrap and the css that I wrote. Could I just put the custom css files inside vendor/assets/bower_components folder in my own css folder?
Is there anything else that I need to do for my css files to be picked up?
There are several ways you can achieve bower functionality in a Rails application.
Although having said that, I'm not sure about your wanting to use it on your custom.css file. The file itself will work just as well if you keep it in your app/assets/stylesheets folder, which will concatenate it to the asset pipeline
Bower-Rails
You'll may wish to consider using bower-rails, which seems to just give you the ability to use bower within your Rails app. This seems to be specifically for helping you keep your dependencies up to date:
Dependency file is bower.json in Rails root dir or Bowerfile if you
use DSL. Check out changelog for the latest changes and releases.
RailsAssets
Another amazing piece of functionality we found recently is "RailsAssets"
This works really well (we use it in production), as it keeps your dependent assets completely up to date. You can use it very simply:
#Gemfile
source https://rails-assets.org
gem 'rails-assets-BOWER_PACKAGE_NAME'
#app/assets/javascripts/application.js
//= require BOWER_PACKAGE_NAME
When running bundle update, this will then give you the ability to update your assets in line with your app!
Long time lurker, first time poster.
I am moving from LESS to Sass, and would also like to begin using Compass on a few projects. I am using CodeKit to watch and initiate new Compass based projects, but I have also tried this from the command line with the same result. My question boils dow to this:
Creating a new compass project with "compass create [project-name]" builds out the basic structure for a Compass project, along with a config.rb file and three .scss files (screen.scss, print.scss, and ie.scss).
But why isn't the project pre-populated with the latest core Compass .scss files, helpers, etc? Am I wrong to expect a payload of core Compass files (Such as these: http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/) to show up in my project?
I can find them if I drill down to say, /usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1... , but these are global and for all projects, not for customizing on a per project basis.
I feel like I'm missing a starter kit of .scss files with a default set of variables. Or that I am otherwise getting off on the wrong foot with how new projects are being initiated with Compass.
Compass is envirment for project. There is no need for it to be in your project dir. You can update it any time. You can use compass watch or sass with compass as lib. All you need is your project and config for compass. It's better way than have it in all projects especially if you have control version in project. In my way I just writing minimal deps files and that's all.
Starter kit creates in sass folder by default. So you don't missing nothing. But there is a clean files. All other stuff you should do like you want or try skeletons from github for example.
I'm using SquishIt and have a .less file which I add to a CSS bundle with the following line
.Add("~/content/styles/dev.less")
This compiles as dev.less.debug.css when I build the solution, however I'd like to be able to just save the .less file and it automatically compiles the css (so I see the change instantly in my browser as I would with a traditional CSS file).
I have looked at a number of extensions to achieve this (such as LessExtension and LessCssForVisualStudio) but these require the file to be added to the bundle as dev.css rather than dev.less. Mindscape Web Workbench does not compile LESS files in its free version so I do not know if it also requires dev.css.
I can't change the link to the file as the project will be worked on across teams, where some won't install an extension and will be happy to build the solution to compile.
Is there and extension that automatically compiles LESS that is built to work with SquishIt?
If you use it on non-production site, I would suggest using less.js (It will render css with js on client-side).
Squishit uses dotless under the hood, so you could use that directly.. either set it up so that you request the less file and a handler returns CSS or you can use the exe to compile on build and also the watch mode... I'm not sure what's best for you, but you can find more information on the dotless wiki (https://github.com/dotless/dotless/wiki/Using-.less)
Web essentials does this job perfectly and its free.
http://vswebessentials.com/