Sass watch

[jmatsushita]

Hi there,

I'd like to catch events coming from any change in the sass tree, but the sass plugin needs to only run on the importing file. i.e.

site.scss
└─base
       └─ import.scss

sigh.js

  pipelines['build-css'] = [
    glob('**/*.*'),
    select({ projectPath : 'site.scss' }),
    sass(),
    write('css')
  ]

If I remove the select then the sass() plugin tries to build import.scss which it shouldn't and therefor erros. If I only glob site.scss then sigh doesn't rebuild when the import changes.

I tried configuring the sass plugin, using { data:null } to make it ignore the input then and ask the sass plugin to build only the site.scss file:

  pipelines['build-css'] = [
    glob('**/*.*'),
    sass({ file: 'site.scss', data:null}),
    select({ projectPath : 'site.css' }),
    write('css')
  ]

But with this the glob events don't seem to retrigger the sass build (if I modify base/import.scss the build isn't retriggered).

What can I do?

[insidewhy]

The glob is wrong, check the readme and the basePath option.

[insidewhy]

As for always forwarding the importing file... the sass plugin should probably handle that as there may be multiple importers etc.

[jmatsushita]

I wrote a simplified example which I haven't tested in order to make the problem appear more clearly. I do use basePath. I'll remind you that I also wrote a couple of plugins now and ask one of my colleagues to write one as well. And I have read the README a dozen times.

I really tried to use sigh as a potential more advanced alternative to other build systems, but I think I will leave it behind now because I ran into to many difficulties, either because there isn't enough documentation, not enough examples or the design isn't mature enough. Thanks for trying though.

[insidewhy]

It'll still be in beta for quite some time, thanks for trying it out!

[insidewhy]

Opened https://github.com/sighjs/sigh-sass/issues/1 for the sass thing. I think files that shouldn't appear in the output should be like _thiss.scss in sass.