FEAT Use node-sass as an alternative SASS compiler

[joebuckle-dev]

Would there be any objection to a proposal that would enable use of node-sass (https://github.com/sass/node-sass) to compile Sass as an alternative to compass?

the aim would to add it as an automated task to Grunt and will somehow be called as an alternative to Compass (not sure how yet)

Reasons

1. Looks as though it could remove Ruby dependency in this project
2. In our own environment we have found it to be faster than Compass

Potential Problems

1. We are very much Linux and MacOS here so would need to see what issues Windows might have.
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[Aarontlott]

Thanks for the idea, we'll check this out. Reducing the number of technologies we need to install before getting the DPL working would be wonderful.

[joebuckle-dev]

Awesome. I've already implemented this locally as we're going to be working on a project for St Andrews. I'm happy to send a pull request but wasn't sure if you wanted to be bothered by it :) hence the reason for the raised issue.

In my fork -

Gruntfile.js just accepts a flag

grunt core -sass-compiler=sass

This will use libsass instead of compass to compile SASS

Omit the flag will just default to compass

[garethjmsaunders]

Use node-sass as an alternative Sass compiler

[garethjmsaunders]

This is on our project backlog, but has not been prioritised during the work required to take the DPL to version 1.0.0. We will update this issue as soon as we have a better idea of which milestone it will be included with.