The sass files are compiled on every page load in development which is very slow. Can you accept one of the pull requests that checks filemtime before compiling?

I'm currently doing this manually but it seems like it should be a standard feature.

if (App::environment() == 'local' and
    filemtime(public_path().'/scss/app.scss') > filemtime(public_path().'/css/app.css')) {
    SassCompiler::run('scss/', 'css/');
}

I cannot use the mixins, variables and whatever I try to import from another file. I'm trying to mix bootstrap with my code to create semantic HTML, but I always have a compiler error telling me something imported is not working.

The public/scss/application.scss file is:

@import 'bootstrap/mixins';

#content-container {
    @include container-fixed();
}

And inside public/scss/bootstrap/_mixins.scss I have

// Centered container element
@mixin container-fixed() {
  margin-right: auto;
  margin-left: auto;
  padding-left:  ($grid-gutter-width / 2);
  padding-right: ($grid-gutter-width / 2);
  @include clearfix();
}

But it throws the following error:

Exception

Undefined mixin container-fixed: failed at `@include container-fixed();` line: 4

Am I doing something wrong or is this an issue?

• added parameter $overwrite to control overwrite
• ignore files that start with _
• ignore if .css file exist (except if $overwrite is set)

$overwrite can be controled by debug/develop option on CMS/framework/etc...

code example on boltCMS:

SassCompiler::run(
    "scss/",
    "css/",
    "scss_formatter_compressed",
    ($app['config']->get('general/debug') ? True : False) // compile scss only on "debug: true"
);

after te composer step, instead of messing with public/index.php which is a very bad idea, it's better to make a service provider named SassServiceProvider (I am not sure if service provider were meant to do this, but this works) and there:

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use SassCompiler;

class SassServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
	/**
	 * Bootstrap services.
	 *
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function boot()
	{
		if(config('app.debug') == true){
			SassCompiler::run("../resources/sass/", "css/");
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Register services.
	 *
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function register()
	{
		//
	}
}

also remember to register the service provider in config/app.php

with this, you are sure you will only do stuff when you are not in development, and you are not messing with laravel's core.

the only bad thing about this solution is that SassCompiler::run() first argument needs to have the ../resources/ at the beginning which is not so bad after all.

Skipping files that begin with '', detection of file modification time and compile only if SCSS is newer than CSS, file handling in subfolders. Sorry guys, I'm new on github and I saw now that skipping files '', overwrite and comparing time has already been done.

• added parameter $overwrite to control(ignore/force) overwrite existing css files
• ignore if .css file exist (except if $overwrite is set)
• ignore as standalone files that start with _
• readme updated

$overwrite can be controled by debug/develop option on CMS/framework/etc...

e.g. on boltCMS, I use debug option to enable overwrite

SassCompiler::run(
    "scss/",
    "css/",
    "scss_formatter_compressed",
    ($app['config']->get('general/debug') ? True : False) // overwrite css only on "debug: true"
);