A Simple Gulp’y Workflow For Sass

I have recently been in charge of optimizing the Sass side of quite a big Rails project, and one of most important things to do was to improve the compilation time. Because of the Sass architecture in place and the fact that Ruby Sass (through the Rails asset pipeline in this case) tends to be slow when dealing with a huge number of files, it could take up to 40 seconds to compile the stylesheets. Talk about a fast development process. :)

My idea was to move away from the asset pipeline and embrace the speed of LibSass. To make things easier I decided to go with a simple Gulp workflow. It was the first time I would be using Gulp, and I must say it was quite an enjoyable experience (which was not the case for Grunt as far as I am concerned).

In this short article, let's just have a quick tour on how to set up a Gulp'y workflow to work with Sass. Here is what we will include:

• Unsurprisingly, Sass compilation with LibSass
• Generating sourcemaps for easier debugging
• Prefixing CSS with Autoprefixer
• Generating Sass documentation with SassDoc

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by Hugo Giraudel via SitePoint