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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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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

Command line options in Sass


So before we get to our heading styles, let's look at some of the command line options that can be passed along with our Sass command. We saw the --watch option. This tells Sass to watch the sass file or an entire folder changes, and then automatically compiles CSS whenever we save any changes to our Sass files.

Watching files and directories

We also told Sass to watch an entire directory and compile to a separate directory. Therefore, any file we created or updated in our sass directory, whether it was a .scss or .sass file, would be compiled to a CSS file of the same name in the css folder.

Tip

You can even use files with the indented Sass syntax and files written in the SCSS syntax in one project. So if you haven't started using the indented Sasssyntax simply because you don't fancy writing all of your mixins again, or you don't want to have to convert all your files, well you don't have to. Simply include any .scss files partials in a .sass (or vice versa) and...

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