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Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook

You're reading from   Sass and Compass Designer's Cookbook Over 120 practical and easy-to-understand recipes that explain how to use Sass and Compass to write efficient, maintainable, and reusable CSS code for your web development projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783286935
Length 436 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stuart Robson Stuart Robson
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Sass FREE CHAPTER 2. Debugging Your Code 3. Variables, Mixins, and Functions 4. Nested Selectors and Modular CSS 5. Built-in Functions 6. Using Compass 7. Cross-Browser CSS3 Mixins 8. Advanced Sass Coding 9. Building Layouts with Sass 10. Building Grid-based Layouts with Susy and Sass 11. Foundation and Sass 12. Bootstrap and Sass 13. Meeting the Bourbon Family 14. Ruby on Rails and Sass 15. Building Mobile Apps 16. Setting up a Build Chain with Grunt Index

Getting Grunt watch for Sass, and LiveReload to work

The browser extensions from LiveReload enable you to get a live preview of your changes to your code. Currently, extensions are available for Safari, Google Chrome, and Firefox. Notice that the extension for Safari does not work when you open the files directly in your browsers by using in the file:/// protocol. In this recipe, you will learn how to integrate LiveReload into your build chain.

Getting ready

This recipe requires you to have the watch plugin (grunt-contribe-watch) and the Sass plugin (grunt-contrib-sass), as described in the Adding the Sass compiler task recipe, installed. You will also need Safari, Google Chrome, or Firefox, and the free LiveReload extension installed.

How to do it...

Extend your Grunt workflow by using the browser extensions LiveReload:

  1. Visit http://livereload.com/extensions/ and follow the instructions to install the required extension for your browser.
  2. Copy the files from the Browser support recipe of Chapter...
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