---
title: LibSass
---

%p.introduction
  We want everyone to enjoy Sass, no matter what language they use. Sass was
  originally written in Ruby. LibSass is a C/C++ port of the Sass engine. The
  point is to be simple, faster, and easy to integrate. Find out more about the
  project over at
  = succeed "." do
    = link_to "GitHub", "http://github.com/sass/libsass"

:markdown
  ## Wrappers

  LibSass is just a library. To run the code locally (i.e. to compile your
  stylesheets), you need an implementer, or "wrapper". There are a number of
  other wrappers for LibSass. We encourage you to write your own wrapper - the
  whole point of LibSass is that we want to bring Sass to many other languages,
  not just Ruby!

  Below are the LibSass wrappers that we're currently aware of. Sometimes there
  are multiple wrappers per language – in those cases, we put the most
  recently-updated wrapper first.

%ul.slides
  %li#sassc
    :markdown
      ### Sass C

      [SassC](https://github.com/sass/sassc) (get it?) is a wrapper written in
      C.

      To run the compiler on your local machine, you need to build SassC. To
      build SassC, you must have either a local copy of the LibSass source or it
      must be installed into your system. For development, please use the source
      version. You must then setup an environment variable pointing to the
      LibSass folder, for example:

    ~ partial "code-snippets/libsass-setup"

    %p
      The executable will be in the bin folder. To run it, simply try something
      like:

    ~ partial "code-snippets/libsass-execute"

  %li#crystal
    :markdown
      ### Crystal
      [sass.cr](https://github.com/straight-shoota/sass.cr)
      is a LibSass wrapper for the
      [Crystal programming language](https://crystal-lang.org/).

  %li#go
    :markdown
      ### Go
      [Wellington](https://github.com/wellington/wellington) is an extension to
      LibSass that adds spriting and is available on brew:

      `brew install wellington`

      There are also three other LibSass wrappers in Go:
      [gosass](https://github.com/moovweb/gosass),
      [go-sass](https://github.com/SamWhited/go-sass) and
      [go_sass](https://github.com/suapapa/go_sass) which have not been updated
      in a while.

  %li#java
    :markdown
      ### Java
      There is one Java wrapper – [jsass](https://github.com/bit3/jsass).
      There is also a plugin for Maven -
      [LibSass Maven plugin](https://github.com/warmuuh/libsass-maven-plugin).

  %li#javascript
    :markdown
      ### JavaScript
      The only pure JavaScript implementation is
      [sass.js](https://github.com/medialize/sass.js). There's a way to
      [test it in the browser](http://medialize.github.io/playground.sass.js/),
      too.

  %li#lua
    :markdown
      ### Lua
      The Lua wrapper is found at
      [lua-sass](https://github.com/craigbarnes/lua-sass).

  %li#net
    :markdown
      ### .NET
      [libsass-net](https://github.com/darrenkopp/libsass-net) is updated
      regularly, and is probably the best bet. There's also
      [NSass](https://github.com/TBAPI-0KA/NSass), although it hasn't been
      updated in a while.

  %li#node
    :markdown
      ### Node
      The [node-sass](https://github.com/sass/node-sass) project has proven to
      be popular, and we've taken it into the main Sass GitHub repo. Check out
      its package page [here](https://www.npmjs.org/package/node-sass), and
      [there's a dedicated twitter account](https://twitter.com/nodesass) for
      updates.

  %li#perl
    :markdown
      ### Perl
      The [CSS::Sass](https://github.com/sass/perl-libsass) project is updated
      regularly. There's the
      [Text-Sass-XS](https://github.com/ysasaki/Text-Sass-XS) project, too,
      although it hasn't been updated in a while.

  %li#php
    :markdown
      ### PHP
      The [SassPHP](https://github.com/sensational/sassphp) project is an
      updated fork of an
      [older PHP version](https://github.com/jamierumbelow/sassphp).

  %li#python
    :markdown
      ### Python
      There are two Python projects that are updated regularly. The
      [libsass-python](https://github.com/dahlia/libsass-python) project (there
      are more details on
      [its own website](http://hongminhee.org/libsass-python/)) and the
      [python-scss](https://github.com/pistolero/python-scss) project.

      Two other Python projects,
      [pylibsass](https://github.com/rsenk330/pylibsass) and
      [SassPython](https://github.com/marianoguerra/SassPython), haven't been
      updated in a while.


  %li#ruby
    :markdown
      ### Ruby
      LibSass has also been ported back into Ruby for the
      [sassc-ruby](https://github.com/sass/sassc-ruby) project.

  %li#scala
    :markdown
      ### Scala
      The only Scala project, [Sass-Scala](https://github.com/kkung/Sass-Scala),
      hasn't been updated in a couple of years.

%h2 About LibSass

:markdown
  This project is the brainchild of
  [Hampton Catlin](http://twitter.com/hcatlin), the original creator of Sass,
  and is sponsored by [Moovweb](http://moovweb.com/).
  [Aaron Leung](http://github.com/akhleung) from Moovweb is the primary
  developer.

%figure
  = image_tag "logos/libsass.png", alt: "LibSass logo"

- content_for :complementary do
  %h3 Wrappers
  %ul.anchors
    %li= link_to "SassC",      "#sassc"
    %li= link_to "Crystal",    "#crystal"
    %li= link_to "Go",         "#go"
    %li= link_to "Java",       "#java"
    %li= link_to "JavaScript", "#javascript"
    %li= link_to "Lua",        "#lua"
    %li= link_to ".NET",       "#net"
    %li= link_to "Node",       "#node"
    %li= link_to "Perl",       "#perl"
    %li= link_to "PHP",        "#php"
    %li= link_to "Python",     "#python"
    %li= link_to "Ruby",       "#ruby"
    %li= link_to "Scala",      "#scala"


  %h3 Resources

  %ul
    - for project in data.libsass.resources
      %li
        = link_to project.name, project.url
        —
        = project.description