nov 25 2014 17:49 Barney Carroll <barney.carr...@gmail.com>:

> A task runner like Gulp would be useful for this kind of thing. This guy 
> wrote an excellent introduction (and starter kit) [0] that covers automated 
> SASS & Browserify code compilation and filesystem-browser synchronisation.
> 
> I've used Gulp for my last 2 major project for all my development and build 
> needs. When a *.js file changes, it reads over my code and warns me (in the 
> console) of any code style deviations or syntax errors, compiles it, tells 
> the browser to reload it, and runs my unit tests, notifying me of any errors. 
> When a *.scss file changes, it runs compass, concatenates, minifies, writes 
> source maps, then tells the connected browsers to reload that particular 
> resource.
> 
> Using a system like this you could easily chuck in a CSS validation report on 
> each change after the SCSS compilation but before the browser-prefixing. 
> There's a plugin that reports back from the W3C service [1] which has been 
> adapted to Gulp [2]. So much more convenient than asking a technical question 
> on CSS-D and waiting for the reply back with the link to 
> http://validator.w3.org/! ;)
> 

That’s very interesting as I installed Gulp in a more complex framework the 
other day. I haven’t looked it over yet, as I was mostly interested in the 
server-side things there. I’ll make sure I check out gulp more thoroughly. 
Thanks.

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