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CSS Sass Basics (retired) Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors Defining Variables

Posted by Kyle Nieber
Kyle Nieber
5,513 Points

Sass to CSS is loading slowly

Whenever I'm working in my .scss file and wanting to view the changes, I'm noticing that its taking about 10 seconds to compile into CSS. This wouldn't be a big deal, however whenever Hampton types in Sass, it converts almost instantly and he can view the changed webpage. What would the reason for this be? I'm thinking it could be because my "sass --watch ." is searching from my entire User folder rather than just the folder that the Sass is located, but I'm not sure how to change this. Any help would be appreciated!

1 Answer

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Kyle;

I find that directing sass --watch to look only in the scss folder is the most efficient. If your folder structure is, for example:

Site | styles

and inside the styles folder you have scss and css folders then from the command line you would navigate to the styles directory and type

sass --watch scss:css

That will have in only look in the scss folder and output the CSS file to the css folder.

Hope it helps.

Ken

Kyle Nieber
Kyle Nieber
5,513 Points

Thanks Ken!