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| title | author | date |
|---|---|---|
| Dart Sass is in Beta | Natalie Weizenbaum | 2017-06-05 13:00:00 -8 |
Last weekend was three days long
and the weather in Seattle was gorgeous. Contrary to stereotype, spring here is
often characterized by bright sunny days that aren't too hot, and on days like
that I love to curl up on the armchair in my living room and write some code.
This weekend, that meant finishing up the last few outstanding @extend bugs,
finally making Dart Sass fully sass-spec compatible1.
This is the milestone we've decided would mark the transition from alpha to beta releases of Dart Sass. Dart Sass 1.0.0-beta.1 is up now on npm, pub, and Chocolatey, and I encourage people to start trying it out in their own applications. We've fixed all the bugs we know about, so now we need our diligent users to find the rest of them and tell us!
Next Steps: Ruby Sass
There are a number of intentional behavior differences between Dart Sass and the existing implementations. All of these differences are things we think improve the language, and many of them have also made Dart Sass much easier to implement, but we recognize that they can make migration more difficult. That's why our next priority is updating Ruby Sass by deprecating old behavior or adding new behavior, as necessary.
Our long-term compatibility goal is to ensure, as much as possible, that if a stylesheet compiles without warnings on Ruby Sass, it will also work with Dart Sass. So a substantial portion of our effort in the near future be spent on ensuring all the compatibility issues are fixed. Once that's done, we'll release those changes as part of Ruby Sass 3.5.
Next Steps: Dart Sass
On the Dart front, we have a number of
issues outstanding that we want
to resolve before we release a stable version of 1.0.0. The majority of these
issues are focused on one thing: compatibility with the node-sass render()
API. This will make it easy to integrate Dart Sass into existing JS ecosystem
tools and workflows, since anything that works with node-sass will automatically
work with Dart Sass as well.
Try It Out
As with all Dart Sass releases, 1.0.0-beta.1 is available on many platforms. Give it a try on whichever is easiest for you:
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Standalone tarballs are available on GitHub, which you can just download and run from the command line.
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Chocolatey users on Windows can just run
choco install sass --pre(orchoco upgrade sass --preif you already have it). -
You can get the pure-JavaScript version from npm by running
npm install -g dart-sass. -
Or if you're a Dart user, you can run
pub global activate sass.
I'm very pleased to have 1.0.0-beta.1 tagged and out in the world, but the work of a language maintainer is never done. I'm back to work, and if I hustle, hopefully I'll be writing about 1.0.0-rc.1 soon!
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Technically there are still two specs marked as "TODO". These test UTF-16 support, which is currently blocked on Dart support. ↩︎