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Processing Sass files

Processing Sass files - CoffeeScript Tutorial

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Processing Sass files

So far, we've learned how to process our JavaScript files, automated our work flow a little more plus set up live reloading. Let's go ahead and see what it would take to add a CSS preprocessor language like Sass to this work flow. Now Sass, like CoffeeScript, is a language that has to be compiled in order to work. It let's you write CSS faster and can help you with powerful features like variables, functions and partials. Now, if you want to learn more about Sass, make sure you check out Responsive CSS with Sass and Compass. You may also want to check out CSS with LESS and Sass. Now, this course has a movie right here on downloading and installing the tools. In order to use Sass in your workflow, you're going to have to have Ruby as well as Sass installed, and this movie will show you how to do that. In order to add Sass into our workflow, we are going to use a plugin called Ruby Sass. So we need to add that into our gulp file. So, I'm going to come over here, and then add sass, and…

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