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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

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In this chapter we set up the last piece in our "optimized workflow" puzzle. We learned what Source maps are and what problems they're designed to overcome. Problems such as having to manually find the line of SCSS among dozens of files because your browser only shows you the filename and line number of the CSS file. Or needing to copy and paste the changes you make in the browser to your text editor and save them there to make changes permanent.

We looked at setting up support for source maps in Firefox and Chrome and the slight differences between those. Mainly workspaces to sync an entire folder as opposed to Firefox's method of only syncing files as you save them.

We looked at how to solve an issue which can arise if you do not tell BrowserSync to be more selective about the files it watches. By default, BrowserSync will try match a file to a linked file in your HTML. If it finds a matching file it simply updates that one file and "injects" the changes. However, when it finds files...

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