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  Sass has an awesome community of designers and developers who love to spread
  the word and help people out. Here we’ve collected some resources.
  Happy Styling!



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      __Everyone is welcome in the Sass community, except those who are
      unwelcoming__. Please read and follow our
      [community guidelines](/community-guidelines).

      Still __getting started__? There are some great  [tutorials](#Tutorials)
      out there to get you on your feet. Want to __learn more__? There's some
      great [Sass blogs](#Blogs) (including
      [a few particular articles](#Articles) we recommend reading), and even a
      few [books about Sass](#Books) to help you learn some new tips and
      tricks.

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      The Sass community is amazing. There are a number of
      [frameworks](#Frameworks) that make using Sass simple. Want try Sass in
      Node, Python, or another framework? Check out the
      [libSass resources](/libsass).

      Thinking of __contributing__  to Sass itself? We rely on everyone to
      keep Sass as stable as it is. Feel free to
      [submit a patch via pull request](#Contribute) to the Sass project.

      Want to create your own Sass implementation? Check out our
      [implementation guidelines](/implementation).


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  %h2#Articles Sass Articles on the Web
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    - for article in data.community.articles
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        %h3= link_to article.name, article.url
        %p= article.description

  %h2#Contribute Contribute

  :markdown
    Sass is an [open source project][github] and we encourage you to
    contribute. You can contribute with
    [bug reports and feature requests][issues], and if you contribute code,
    we'll love you forever. If you just want to help out but you're not sure
    what to do, the [Help Wanted label][help] on the issue tracker is a good
    place to start. It has a mix of feature requests, bugs, and tasks that
    aren't coding-intensive that the developers think are a good place for
    someone new to the codebase to jump in.

    [github]: https://github.com/sass/sass
    [issues]: https://github.com/sass/sass/issues
    [help]: https://github.com/sass/sass/labels/Help%20Wanted

    When writing code, there are two primary branches we use. The [stable
    branch][github] is the default; is where we do development on the released
    version of Sass. Bug fixes for released functionality, documentation
    improvements, and and general infrastructure stuff should all go on
    stable. The [master branch][master] is where we work on the next version
    of Sass. Once you've followed the steps below, new features should be submitted to master.

    [master]: https://github.com/sass/sass/tree/master
    [planned]: https://github.com/sass/sass/labels/Planned

    The Sass codebase is pretty big, and it can be intimidating to navigate it
    and understand the best way to make a change. If you need help, make a
    post on [the Sass mailing list][list]; the Sass developers are happy to
    assist, even if you don't have much experience with Ruby or programming as
    a whole. They can answer questions about how the system works, suggest
    avenues for solving problems, and review your code once it's written.

    [list]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sass-lang

    Whether you're adding a feature or fixing a bug, if it changes publicly
    visible behavior, it's important to write automated tests for it. All the
    tests live in the `test/sass` directory; find the test file that's most
    closely related to your change, and add a test or tests there. For a
    feature, make sure your tests fully cover all the ways that feature could
    be used, including ways it could be invalid.

    Once you've written a patch with tests, send it to us as a
    [pull request][]. A developer will look it over, and will probably make
    some suggestions and requests. Once you address those, it'll get merged
    in!

    [pull request]: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/

  %h2#AddingSyntax Adding Syntax

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    The biggest and most impressive features of Sass usually involve adding
    new syntax of some sort. This can be pretty fun—something that used to be
    an error starts working because you made it—but syntax changes are also a
    lot of work. For statement-level syntax like a new `@`-rule, you have to:

    * Add a node for the syntax to the abstract syntax tree in
      [`lib/sass/tree`][tree].

    * Parse the syntax in SCSS to the node. The SCSS parser is in
      [`lib/sass/scss/parser.rb`][scss parser].

    * Parse the syntax in the indented syntax to the node. The indented
      syntax parser is in [`lib/sass/engine.rb`][sass parser].

    * Add support for setting the compilation options on the node in
      [`lib/sass/tree/visitors/set_options.rb`][set options].

    * Add support for cloning the node in
      [`lib/sass/tree/visitors/deep_copy.rb`][deep copy].

    * If the syntax is just something new from pure CSS, add support for
      compiling it to CSS in [`lib/sass/tree/visitors/to_css.rb`][to css]. If
      it's for a Sass feature that's not part of CSS, add runtime behavior in
      [`lib/sass/tree/visitors/perform.rb`][perform] or
      [`lib/sass/tree/visitors/cssize.rb`][cssize].

    * Add support for converting the syntax back to SCSS and the indented
      syntax with `sass-convert` in
      [`lib/sass/tree/visitors/convert.rb`][convert].
      Don't forget to test this conversion, too!

    [tree]: https://github.com/sass/sass/tree/stable/lib/sass/tree
    [script tree]: https://github.com/sass/sass/tree/stable/lib/sass/script/tree
    [scss parser]: https://github.com/sass/sass/tree/stable/lib/sass/scss/parser.rb
    [sass parser]: https://github.com/sass/sass/tree/stable/lib/sass/engine.rb
    [set options]: https://github.com/sass/sass/tree/stable/lib/sass/tree/visitors/set_options.rb
    [deep copy]: https://github.com/sass/sass/tree/stable/lib/sass/tree/visitors/deep_copy.rb
    [to css]: https://github.com/sass/sass/tree/stable/lib/sass/tree/visitors/to_css.rb
    [perform]: https://github.com/sass/sass/tree/stable/lib/sass/tree/visitors/perform.rb
    [cssize]: https://github.com/sass/sass/tree/stable/lib/sass/tree/visitors/cssize.rb
    [convert]: https://github.com/sass/sass/tree/stable/lib/sass/tree/visitors/convert.rb


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  %h3#Tutorials Tutorials
  %ul
    - for tutorial in data.community.tutorials
      %li= link_to tutorial.name, tutorial.url

  %h3#Blogs Sass Blogs
  %ul
    - for blog in data.community.blogs
      %li= link_to blog.name, blog.url

  %h3#Books Sass Books
  %ul
    - for book in data.community.books
      %li= link_to book.name, book.url

  %h3#Projects Projects & Frameworks
  %ul
    - for project in data.community.projects
      %li
        = link_to project.name, project.url
        —
        = project.description