I got not often in my coding life a "thats a game changer" thought.
This is one.
Prepros is a watchdog compiler. It means you tell prepros to watch file/project and such and prepros is doing stuff when you changed a file.
Yes, there was others there before, but they was clumsy, mac only and overcomplex or simply buggy.
Sounds not spectacular, but the point is what and how prepros is doing:
It its merging and mins your javascript files and sass/less/compass files after compile but also optimizing your gfx files. All automatically. You tell prepos "watch all files in that folder and do your work". Just drag & drop it in the background app.
And voila, you get every time you change a file a complete production version of your project files, mergend and minified and all.
And because prepros is calling a css preprocessor, the created css file for example is every time in real time checked for errors. And these errors are shown, logged, etc. Thats the point where you program your css files.
But it does more: It comes with a complete set of the most used tools and scripting languages like haml, markup and such and is doing the same.
Check it out.
I installed it for the new bootstrap 3. There is already a sass package done.
https://github.com/jlong/sass-bootstrap
Combine it with prepros
Prepros :: Compile Sass, less or any preprocessing language
Comment out the modules you did not need and let prepeos doing the work.
You get a perfect lightweight framework, always compatible, easy to expand, sanity is already done.
This is one.
Prepros is a watchdog compiler. It means you tell prepros to watch file/project and such and prepros is doing stuff when you changed a file.
Yes, there was others there before, but they was clumsy, mac only and overcomplex or simply buggy.
Sounds not spectacular, but the point is what and how prepros is doing:
It its merging and mins your javascript files and sass/less/compass files after compile but also optimizing your gfx files. All automatically. You tell prepos "watch all files in that folder and do your work". Just drag & drop it in the background app.
And voila, you get every time you change a file a complete production version of your project files, mergend and minified and all.
And because prepros is calling a css preprocessor, the created css file for example is every time in real time checked for errors. And these errors are shown, logged, etc. Thats the point where you program your css files.
But it does more: It comes with a complete set of the most used tools and scripting languages like haml, markup and such and is doing the same.
Check it out.
I installed it for the new bootstrap 3. There is already a sass package done.
https://github.com/jlong/sass-bootstrap
Combine it with prepros
Prepros :: Compile Sass, less or any preprocessing language
Comment out the modules you did not need and let prepeos doing the work.
You get a perfect lightweight framework, always compatible, easy to expand, sanity is already done.