Cannot compile a partial

[glebm]

I am developing a Sass library that consists only of partials. However, it seems impossible to use grunt-contrib-sass to compile non-partials.

dist: {
  files: {
    'dist/css/library.css': 'scss/_library.scss' // <- not compiled
  }
}

The reasons I want only partials in the library:

1. Sass --watch outputs all non-prefixed files as separate CSS files. E.g. if a user copies my library directly into the project, then imports it into their scss/main.scss, and runs sass --watch:

$ sass --watch scss:public  
      write public/main.css
      write public/library.css

1. Compass copies all non-partials in the libraries into the project when the library is added:

$ compass compile
 modified config.rb
        ...
    write stylesheets/screen.css
directory stylesheets/library
    write stylesheets/library/library.css

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Sister ticket: https://github.com/sindresorhus/grunt-sass/issues/176

[tbremer]

SASS inherently does not compile partials (assuming you use the _partial.s(ac)ss convention).

This library (obviously) follows that same convention. You only need to send this module your non partial files, and your output files.

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On Jan 18, 2015, at 8:07 PM, Gleb Mazovetskiy notifications@github.com wrote:

I am developing a Sass library that consists only of partials. However, it seems impossible to use grunt-contrib-sass to compile non-partials.

The reasons I want only partials in the library:

Sass --watch outputs all non-prefixed files as separate CSS files. E.g. if a user copies my library directly into the project, then imports it into their scss/main.scss, and runs sass --watch: $ sass --watch scss:public
write public/main.css write public/library.css Compass copies all non-partials in the libraries into the project when the library is added: $ compass compile modified config.rb ... write stylesheets/screen.css directory stylesheets/library write stylesheets/library/library.css — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[glebm]

SASS inherently does not compile partials (assuming you use the _partial.s(ac)ss convention).

Sass can compile partials:

$ sass tmp/_test.sass # works

[sindresorhus]

The problem is that this task don't know whether a glob or specific file where used as grunt does the globbing and just passes down a list of files. Just import your partials into a normal Sass file and compile that instead.

[glebm]

This would require a new option to override the behaviour (e.g. compilePartials: true). I'll see if I can PR this soon.

[tbremer]

Sass will compile anything you pass it, but the idea of a partial is that you import it into another file.

If you were to use --update or --watch and pass your input and output directory then you'd see That Sass does not compile partials, it compiles the files that import said partials.