WatchSass.Tool

This tool watches sass/scss files for modifcations and compiles to css.

• Will not compile partial/module files, file starting with '_' in the filename (_module.sass, _module_scss).\
• Can be configured to re-target the output file(s) to different folder(s)/file(s)

Install

dotnet tool install -g watchsass.tool --prelease

Run

By defaults monitors current working directory.

dotnet watch-sass watch [directory]

or

dotnet-watch-sass watch [directory]

Help

dotnet watch-sass --help

Config file

Config file is used to configure the output target css file from compiled sass/scss
Target can be either folder or file. If the target is a folder, then the css file will be named the same as the sass file.

Config file sass-watcher-tool.json is searched for in the root of the path being monitored.

Config file layout

{  
   "sources": [
      {
         "source": "src/styles/main.sass",
         "target": "src/dist/css/main.css"
      }
   ] 
}