Sass4fUser Guide
Sass4f is a support library that aids Alien-Factory in the development of other libraries, frameworks and applications. Though you are welcome to use it, you may find features are missing and the documentation incomplete.
Overview
Sass4f is a wrapper around libSass 3.2.5 - libSass 3.2.5 - the compiler for Sass and Scss files.
Sass4f is a simple command line utility program for compiling .scss files into .css files. It was created for compiling Twitter Bootstrap 4 templates and has been successfully tested with Bootstrap v4.0.0-beta.2.
Sass4f is a happy alternative to installing Sass, Node.js, Grunt, and half the Internet just to compile a couple of text files!
Quick start example:
C:\> fan afSass4j -x C:\projects\website.scss C:\projects\website.css
Quick Start
Once installed, run Sass4f from the command line:
C:\> fan afSass4j [-x] [-m] <sassIn> <cssOut>
Where sassIn and cssOut are files. OS dependent and / or URI notation may be used. Example:
C:\> fan afSass4j -x C:\projects\website.scss C:\projects\website.css C:\> fan afSass4j -x file:/C:/projects/website.scss file:/C:/projects/website.css
-x compresses the CSS output, -m generates a source map, and -w continuously watches for file updates.
Note that cssOut may also be a directory, for example:
C:\> fan afSass4j -x -m -w scss\website.scss css\
will generate css\website.css and re-compile it should any file in the scss/ directory be updated.
Platforms
Sass4f is bundled with pre-compiled native binaries for the following platforms:
linux-x86linux-x86_64macosx-x86_64win32-x86win32-x86_64
When Sass4f is first run, the appropriate binary is copied to %FAN_HOME%/bin/ so it may be loaded by Java.
Dependencies
Sass4f is designed to be used a standalone application and as such, comes bundled with the following jars:
jna-4.2.1.jarjna-platform-4.2.1.jarjnaerator-runtime-0.11.jar
Acknowledgements
Sass4f uses JNAerator to communicate with libSass - an idea taken from sass-java.