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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

Setting up a Compass project

One of the biggest time savers Compass offers when you begin using it is when setting up a Sass project. While Sass saves time with the watch command, we still need to create the overall project folder and the directory for our Sass files and Sass files themselves. "That's unacceptable!" I hear you cry. "Manually create our own files and folders?! The nerve!" Thankfully, Compass can ease our pitiful plight with a single command from the command line.

Open your command line and cd into the mastering-sass folder. Within this folder you should have the ch02 folder with the code from the last chapter. What we want to do now is create a new folder called ch03. However, we also want to create a scss folder inside that, inside which we'll create our scss files, which will then need to be compiled into .css files in our css folder. That sounds like a bunch of stuff preventing me from doing some actually important (and dare I say fun) work...

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