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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Getting Started with Sass Installing and Using Sass

Ronny Ewanek
Ronny Ewanek
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Posted by Ronny Ewanek
Ronny Ewanek
4,385 Points

Installation on Windows?

I found this lesson to be unclear on which Sass platform I should download, how to install, and overall very confusing. Help?

4 Answers

Sean Perryman
Sean Perryman
13,810 Points
Sean Perryman
Sean Perryman
13,810 Points

Check out Scout. It is open source, and will get you up and running with SASS in a few minutes.

Ronny Ewanek
Ronny Ewanek
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Ronny Ewanek
Ronny Ewanek
4,385 Points

Thanks! Was just a bit confused because the video was MacOS based.

Sean Perryman
Sean Perryman
13,810 Points
Sean Perryman
Sean Perryman
13,810 Points

They usually have a second video detailing Windows install, with all the same content except for a different platform. You will likely run into that in the future; should make it easier.

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

I use to use Scout, and now I use Prepos (the free version) and I highly recommend it. It's very easy to set up, I found it more reliable than Scout (I was having issues with Scout watching files) and it has a few more features, plus it will also work with more than just Sass files, such as minify JS, and more.

The one thing it still can't do is Autoprefixer and Sass maps together. It's one or the other with Prepos. I have to use Grunt to get both of those to work, but Grunt can be a bit of a pain to set up, especially on smaller projects.