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Gary Jennings
22,408 PointsSass Template / Starting Place
When I start a new project, I find myself structuring my Sass the same way all the time with my variables and mixins. Do you people usually make a generic Sass structure with variables premade and mixins defined, and use it as a starting place for all their projects? If so, are their examples online?
3 Answers
Tim Knight
28,888 PointsGary,
Absolutely! I actually have a prototyping framework that I use when starting to work up an application that includes all of my default mixins and organizational style.
See: https://github.com/timknight/middleman-ethos/tree/master/source/assets/stylesheets
Mina Markham also has a Sass project that she's released to help in organizational style, so that's something else you might want to consider: http://minamarkham.github.io/sassy-starter/
Gary Jennings
22,408 PointsThe first link gives me a 404
Tim Knight
28,888 PointsInteresting, it's not giving me a 404... you might try just looking up on Github.
Aaron HARPT
19,845 PointsYou can look at either compass or bourbon for examples of premade mixins/variables and other Sass features.
Gary Jennings
22,408 PointsI love the treehouse community, thanks so much guys. I'll take a look at your suggestions Tim Knight.
I have done a few projects and have found myself sortof reinventing the wheel each time. Now I am ready to get a reusable work flow and start implementing some best practices.
peyton caseria
Courses Plus Student 12,281 Pointspeyton caseria
Courses Plus Student 12,281 PointsGood question, I was wondering the same thing while on rails. You can save code you've done and reuse it, Sass is made to be extremely simple though.
Even more so than bootstrap and other frameworks, I actually need to start saving my work to a usb drive soon to stay more organized, on top of that it is good practice to have physical backups.
I would suggest saving it, and if you are using a mac then make a custom tag for it and other snippets of code you need to store.