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Koala is a GUI application for less, sass and coffeescript compilation, to help web developers to the development more efficient.
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For those who went from Koala to Prepros or something else #823

Open morrow95 opened 4 years ago

morrow95 commented 4 years ago

The last few days Koala has been reeeeally acting up and is constantly hanging then dying showing errors and all sorts of stuff. I believe it has to do with the file watcher as I can manually compile all my files in Koala with no problem at all - it is only when automatic compiling is on and seems to be for certain files - not sure why.

I just downloaded Prepros. The first problem is there is little to no customization when it comes to mapping files/folders to specific output destinations. From what I can tell looking at its config file I have to map every single file I want to rather than just mapping an entire folder like I did with Koala. There is also no documentation at all regarding the config file that I could find anywhere. Changing the output destination file by file for a huge project is ridiculous. At the same time I have no interest in changing my entire project to accommodate a 1-1 location/output destination for everything either.

Am I missing something with Prepros or is there documentation somewhere about the config file that lets me do folder mappings, wildcards, exclusions, etc? I am not going to change the destination on every file or every time I create a new file - that is ridiculous.

Is there something else out there that wasn't a drastic switch from Koala? I noticed CodeKit seems similar, but is only for Mac.

richard-keasley commented 3 years ago

I have been trying out this https://scout-app.io/ Early days, but it seems to work in a similar way to Koala.

morrow95 commented 3 years ago

@richard-keasley I remember looking at this a long time ago and just checked their site again. It is only for sass and scss. Not being able to do js files is a deal breaker for me. Also looks like there is only a single input/output folder setting whereas in Koala you can specify multiple in a settings file. Koala's functionality is/was soo damn good... wish someone would just come up with something similar in functionality.