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programmer2021
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 23,052 Pointsgulp sass vs sass --watch
How is this different from using sass command --watch flag? I still have to open terminal and type gulp compileSass. Maybe its 2-3 seconds faster because I know I don't have to type the src and dest files (ie app.scss:app.css), but what is a real benefit of this?
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Colin Marshall
32,861 PointsOne of the benefits is that you can combine it with other build tasks. So you can create one watch task that triggers different tasks depending on where the file is located and what the file's extension is. Normally with gulp you would be running more than just a Sass task when developing. You would also be concatenating javascript files, converting coffeescript, etc.
Another benefit is that you can customize the Sass task to add browser prefixes, check for errors, reload the browser window on file changes, etc. You can make it do whatever you want.
You will discover more benefits as this course progresses.
Seth Kroger
56,413 PointsGulp has it's own watch task you'll get to later in the course. You can combine it with the other tasks to watch for changes in all the files, not just the sass.