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Posted by samgstimpson
samgstimpson
619 Points

Speeding up SCSS compile times without LIBSCSS

I build custom websites generally without the need for Bootstrap or Foundation but the sites are sizeable. When compiling my SCSS it will gradually as the site grows get slower and slower - Apart from using LIBSCSS is there any other ways to speed this up?

ā€¢ Currently my site takes 45 seconds to compile. ā€¢ I use "grunt-contrib-sass" within GRUNT. ā€¢ I have a base.scss stylesheet that imports all the partials (files with _name.scss)

The project is not a ruby project but we use ruby for the compiler.

I'm absolutely stumped and the compile team is affecting my team and the time it takes to build a project.

2 Answers

Matt Kelm
Matt Kelm
7,240 Points
Matt Kelm
Matt Kelm
7,240 Points

Hi Sam,

I don't know that there's much you can do about the speed of the Ruby compiler--the dev team where I'm at uses LibSass for this very reason.

samgstimpson
samgstimpson
619 Points
samgstimpson
samgstimpson
619 Points

Thanks for your answer, we've built a few projects using some sass features that LIBSASS doesnt support yet -we'll have to wait!