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

Posted by Tony Zipparro
Tony Zipparro
5,813 Points

running sass --watch test.scss on cmd is not updating test.css when i make changes to test.scss. (windows 7)....

i ran the command just as in the video so that sass would keep an eye on my test.scss file so when i made changes it would automatically update my test.css file but its not updating my file... what is the cause of this?

1 Answer

Sarah Hoopes
Sarah Hoopes
6,304 Points
Sarah Hoopes
Sarah Hoopes
6,304 Points

I had this same issue, also using windows.

I used this command in the ruby window: sass --watch input.scss:output.css

So, using my file names it read: sass --watch main.scss:main.css

For some reason, I had to manually update my files. After making some changes to my scss file, I hit save. Next I would "stop" the watch command. Then I would run it again. My css file would update each time I did this. This worked for me.

Martin Jones
Martin Jones
2,498 Points
Martin Jones
Martin Jones
2,498 Points

I'm also having the some issue on Win 7.

Joe Piazza
Joe Piazza
5,544 Points

That works for me, thanks Sarah.