sass file globbing?

[thedavidmeister]

I'd love to be able to use this, it looks like it would be great to be able to watch and sass with boot instead of having a ruby setup running in parallel in the project just for stylesheets.

The only thing holding me back is not being able to glob :(

https://github.com/chriseppstein/sass-globbing

Maybe I misunderstand, but there's already a custom @import setup in this project, so it wouldn't be crazy hard to add globbing?

[Deraen]

Hmm, interesting. Looks like this should be doable as the Jsass Importer interface allows to return multiple results from single import. Though I am not sure if that does what I think it does.

I don't have time to implement this myself now, but I can offer some pointers if you are interested in implementing this.

• What files should globs match?
  • Local files (Boot fileset / Lein source-dirs)?
  • Classpath resources?
  • Webjars?
  • I am thinking that local files are enough
• Would be good to use some existing glob library to handle most of stuff?
  • https://github.com/jkk/clj-glob seems out of date

[Deraen]

Looks like Java NIO includes file globbing implementation.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/find.html
http://javapapers.com/java/glob-with-java-nio/

[Deraen]

This has been debated a lot in Libsass and Sass issues:

sass/sass#1517
sass/libsass#156

I agree with the reasons there:

No. Sass, like CSS, is an order-sensitive language, and glob-based imports make the ordering of imports unclear and fragile. This is a recipe for accidentally introducing subtle bugs that are hard to track down or even notice. - sass/sass#1517 (comment)

[thedavidmeister]

It's OK, I moved to Garden anyway and implemented a ns scanner sort of like clojure.test @Deraen thanks for looking into this.