This is my basically my first ever OG website, but I tried to make it using a side navbar and SASS.
I was bored; I have nothing to do at the time, and so I decided to learn SASS. I practiced my SASS skills by making this little static website.
On release V1, I used a VSCode extension to compile my SASS files to regular CSS. But, after watching Kevin's video on why I should not use an extension to compile, I decided to stop doing it. Here's the video.
I have sucessfully done it the right way and have avoided VSCode extensions. I set up SASS with the help of this video. Thank you Mr. Powell!
First of all, initialize NPM with npm init. This will create a package.json which I have no idea does what. It apparently helps other developers install the right packages when they clone my project. Then, install SASS with npm with
npm install sass --save-dev
Note the --save-dev flag there.
There, start watching your SASS files with the following command:
sass --watch [SASS directory]:[compiled CSS directory]`.
In the case of my project, I have my file in the scss directory, and I want to compile it to CSS. So the resulting command will be sass -watch scss:css.
If in case an error pops up, try installing SASS globally with npm install -g sass. Or, you can run npx sass --watch [SASS directory]:[compiled CSS directory].