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CSS

Posted by Ben Friedman
Ben Friedman
10,897 Points

Why are you teaching scss and not sass?

I've gone through the basics of Sass and the first section of Advanced Sass and the teachers are using scss. I'm wondering why Treehouse chooses this method? If you research on google there are many pros and cons to this...I'm personally just curious as a new developer and trying to figure out what is the best way for me to move forward with my learning.

Thanks Treehouse! Keep up the great work! -Spencer

3 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

As of Sass 3 the standard Sass syntax is SCSS. However, Sass is backward compatible with the indented syntax.

It's worth noting that the teacher of the Sass Basics course is Hampton Catlin who created the Sass language so I'm guessing it was his call to use the SCSS syntax in the Sass Basics course.

myackley35
myackley35
34,574 Points
myackley35
myackley35
34,574 Points

Hey Ben/Spencer,

SCSS looks a lot like regular CSS in syntax with closing properties with semi-colons, nesting those properties within curly braces, and so-forth. It might be a little easier for students to relate to for these reasons. Quite a bit of what you pick up, in terms of how things are compiled, seem to be pretty relative between SCSS and SASS though there are probably a few differences.

That's about all I have for you from what I've found with working with SCSS and SASS so far.

Ben Friedman
Ben Friedman
10,897 Points
Ben Friedman
Ben Friedman
10,897 Points

Thanks for the answers - it always makes sense to follow what the creators do for sure - I was just wondering why the switch.

Cheers.