##node-sass

Node-sass is a library that provides binding for Node.js to libsass, the C version of the popular stylesheet preprocessor, Sass.

It allows you to natively compile .scss files to css at incredible speed and automatically via a connect middleware.

Find it on npm: https://npmjs.org/package/node-sass

Install

npm install node-sass

Usage

var sass = require('node-sass');
sass.render(scss_content, callback [, options]);

Especially, the options argument is optional. It support two attribute: includePaths and outputStyle, both of them are optional.

includePaths is an Array, you can add a sass import path.

outputStyle is a String, its value should be one of 'nested', 'expanded', 'compact', 'compressed'. [Important: currently the argument outputStyle has some problem which may cause the output css becomes nothing because of the libsass, so you should not use it now!]

Here is an example:

var sass = require('node-sass');
sass.render('body{background:blue; a{color:black;}}', function(err, css){
  console.log(css)
}/*, { includePaths: [ 'lib/', 'mod/' ], outputStyle: 'compressed' }*/);

Connect/Express middleware

Recompile .scss files automatically for connect and express based http servers

var server = connect.createServer(
  sass.middleware({
      src: __dirname
    , dest: __dirname + '/public'
    , debug: true
  }),
  connect.static(__dirname + '/public')
);

Heavily inspired by https://github.com/LearnBoost/stylus

Rebuilding binaries

Node-sass includes pre-compiled binaries for popular platforms, to add a binary for your platform follow these steps:

Check out the project:

git clone https://github.com/andrew/node-sass.git
cd node-sass
npm install

Rebuild the binary:

node rebuild.js

Replace the prebuild binary with your newly generated one

cp build/Release/binding.node precompiled/*your-platform*/binding.node

TODO

• better error handling
• file context
• folder context

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add documentation if necessary.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Send a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2013 Andrew Nesbitt. See LICENSE for details.