I've built my portfolio site off of Github Pages. Now that I'm starting portfolio 2.0, I want to use Sass.
I've used Sass in the past but didn't have to set it up directly. So far I've installed Sass using gem install sass and have my file setup, but am not sure how to compile it properly.
File Structure:
styles.css
scss/
_banner.scss
Styles.css content:
#import 'scss/_banner';
Am I missing the compiling step somewhere? It is even possible to use Sass on Github Pages?
For my solution I replaced scss/_banner.scss with styles.scss, opting to not create partial files for a single page application.
Then all you have to do is run $ sass --watch css/styles.scss:css/styles.css in the terminal and your CSS will be compiled each time you save your Sass file. This command points your computer to which file to compile and to where.
Thanks to #dommmm for directing me to the solution with the youtube video in the question comments.
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I installed Bootstrap CSS with SASS from the following repo:
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap-sass
I ran the command "bower install bootstrap-sass" on the command line and this successfully installed the folder bower_components on my project folder. (Incidentally - I have nothing else present yet, I want to learn to bootstrap the CSS compiling first).
OK, here's what I want to accomplish:
I want to be able to add .scss files to the folder I create called resources/assets/sass/
I want to provision/manage so that .scss files I add to this directory are in turn compiled to public/build/css/that_file_name.css
More practically, I would like to compile all of the .scss files into one large .css file.
My question(s) are:
What does the compiling?
How do I instruct it to compile the .scss files in the folder above in the public/build/css/ folder?
Must I configure new .scss files or can I set it so as to just add them to that sass folder?
Bonus, how do I tell it to minify the output file, or not (so I can experiment with both ways)?
What does the compiling?
Compiling Sass files transforms stylesheets with Sass-specific syntax like selector nesting and mixins into normal CSS that can be parsed by browsers.
How do I instruct it to compile the .scss files in the folder above in the public/build/css/ folder?
Since you're already using Bower which is a Node.js package, I assume that you have no problem using the Node.js package node-sass instead of the original Ruby version.
First, install the package using npm i -D node-sass. Then, create a new script inside your project's package.json:
"compile-sass": "node-sass resources/assets/sass/main.scss public/build/css/main.css"
main.scss is now your entry point where you import Bootstrap and your other stylesheets.
// I don't know whether this path is correct
// Just find out the location of "_bootstrap.scss" and then create the relative path
#import "../../../bower_components/bootstrap-sass/assets/stylesheets/_bootstrap.scss";
/* Your custom SCSS */
Finally, to actually run the compilation, execute npm run compile-sass in your terminal.
Must I configure new .scss files or can I set it so as to just add them to that sass folder?
Since you never tell node-sass to "compile everything inside this folder" and instead use an entry point file (main.js), when you want to include a new file you simply add an #import directive with a relative path to it.
Bonus, how do I tell it to minify the output file, or not (so I can experiment with both ways)?
To minify the resulting main.css file, I recommend csso. You can install its CLI package using npm i -D csso-cli and then add another script to your package.json:
"minify-css": "csso public/build/css/main.css public/build/css/main.min.css"
You can then run that script using npm run minify-css. The minified file will be outputted as main.min.css.
For all the question asked, the answer can be found above. But if you are just looking to compile .scss file to .css using command line, use below,
sass source/stylesheets/index.scss build/stylesheets/index.css
Make sure you have "node JS/npm" and Sass compiler installed.
If not, use this to install Node.js and npm - https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm
And use this to install Sass - https://sass-lang.com/install
Enjoy ;)
So I have been using SCSS and Compass on all my projects. Super happy with it. However, just now I got an existing site built by a different team that needs to be updated and uses LESS. (The project also uses .ftl files which is also new to me)
Less syntax seems pretty similar and straight forward so I don't have an issue updating .less files, however how do I get it to "compile" to css so I can see my updates on the browser?
[You] can invoke the compiler from the command-line, as such:
$ lessc styles.less
This will output the compiled CSS to stdout. To save the CSS result to a file of your choice use:
$ lessc styles.less styles.css
To output minified CSS you can use the clean-css plugin. When the plugin is installed, a minified CSS output is specified with --clean-css option:
$ lessc --clean-css styles.less styles.min.css
source: http://lesscss.org/#using-less-command-line-usage
This is assuming that you have less installed through node. Additionally, the previous developer could have been using a gulp file to compile it, so you will want to look at that as a possibility.
If you just want to quickly convert it without installing any tools: http://less2css.org/
Personally I use http://koala-app.com/ for less, sass, compass and coffeescript. I especially like the auto compile option, just working on less files and the css file will be updated in the same folder at the same time.
i wanted to ask, how can i continue working on existing project, while having no experience on compass/sass used here?
I always use Grunt and Less, but now i have to face Compass and Sass.
Here, i created screenshot of files structure.
My problem is, how setup system to get this all work. For example i see this code in compass/scss/style.scss:
#import "compass";
#import "bootstrap";
#import "mixins";
#import "defaults";
#import "layouts/forms";
#import "layouts/header-footer";
#import "layouts/home";
For example, i see #import compass, but there is no directory like this, and i dont know how can i attach - install compass, to get this work.
And another question, with grunt all i needed, was gruntfile configured, then i just type "grunt observe", and all changes in less files was converted to one css file.
But here, i can't find starting point. I have installed Ruby, and i have tried various commands in command line, but nothing works.
For example, from compass page, i have tried :
$ cd /path/to/project
$ compass watch
But this does nothing, just show some info in command line, that compass is watching for changes...
So in general, how to continue this project without installed components to work with ?
For Using Sass and Compass,
You are required to Install Ruby, sass and compass,
Then move to the project folder path where the config.rb file lies,
Then run the compass watch here
you can see like the following on your terminal / bash / command prompt
>>> Compass is watching for changes. Press Ctrl-C to Stop.
After this If there is no css file created, You have to simply make some changes on one of the scss files or partial files(_filename) that you have imported to style.scss.
The link will guide you to proper installation and creating project folder setting up.
http://compass-style.org/install/
With Yeomam I choose Webapp project with bootstrap and scss.
In the html file it includes reference to main.css.
To run it I need to run grunt serve which creates main.css file from main.scss.
If I run directly the files from browser I will miss main.css because it has not been created from scss.
How can I create it in order to run from browser without grunt?
Another option to compile scss, programs like prepros or codekit, I use it daily in my work
prepros free:
https://prepros.io/
codekit:
https://incident57.com/codekit/
I just started working with scss a few days ago (with Webstorm), and it seem to auto generate/update the css file after saving the scss file. Unfortunately, when I save the scss file now, no changes are made to the css file. I was working on these files from a different location, so I am guessing that the Webstorm settings might be different. I thought file watchers might have something to do with it, but I am not sure what goes in the program field. I really have no idea why this is happening.
No, saving a .SCSS file does not automatically compile the final stylesheet file. What you need to do is set up a watch. There are a number of ways to do this (and a number of programs that'll do it for you).
The most straight forward is through the command line. Assuming you have the SASS gem installed (and you're in a ruby environment), do the following in the command line:
Navigate to the folder in which your .scss file/s are kept.
Run the following command: sass --watch style.scss:style.css
Note: The above assumes that both your .scss and .css files are named style, adjust accordingly if they are not. Also, if your .css and .scss files are in different directories you'll have to adjust the paths accordingly.
Remember, sass --watch then yourScssFile.scss : yourCssFile.css
Alternatively you can use an app, like LiveReload to watch the files for you. this'll take a bit of configuration, but it may be a little easier for you if you're only just getting started in the wornderful world of SCSS/SASS
Yopu can use File Watchers in WebStorm to auto-update the CSS file on changing SCSS; but this would also require installing the external SCSS compiler (SASS gem). Please refer to http://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/webhelp/transpiling-sass-less-and-scss-to-css.html#d104715e458 for more information