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Mastering Sass

You're reading from   Mastering Sass An expert's guide to practical knowledge on leveraging SASS and COMPASS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883361
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luke Watts Luke Watts
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Requirements FREE CHAPTER 2. Sass – The Road to Better CSS 3. Compass – Navigating with Compass 4. CSS and HTML – SMACSS, OOCSS and Semantics 5. Advanced Sass 6. Gulp – Automating Tasks for a Faster Workflow 7. Sourcemaps – Editing and Saving in the Browser 8. Building a Content-Rich Website Components 9. Building a Content-Rich Website – Layout 10. Building a Content-Rich Website – Theme

Gulp


The Gulp tasks we have at the moment are gulp sass:compile, which compiles our Sass, gulp sass:watch, which compiles our Sass and watches for changes, and finally gulp serve, which boots up a server, opens a tab in the browser and loads our project into it (if there is not already a tab open on localhost:3000), and then watches for changes to our SCSS files and html files and compiles our Sass and refreshes the browser.

This is the task that we'll use the most. So let's make it our default task. Open the gulpfile.js and add the following task:

/** 
 * Default Task 
 * 
 * Runs `gulp serve` 
 */ 
gulp.task('default', ['serve']); 

Now we only need to use the command:

gulp

Run it from the command line and our serve task will be run.

Adding jQuery

We'll require some small amount of JavaScript for some UI improvements for our design over the next few chapters. To ease some of this work we'll use jQuery. The easiest way is to simply link to it from a Content Delivery...

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