Transitioning to SCSS at Scale

[danso]

https://codeascraft.com/2015/02/02/transitioning-to-scss-at-scale/

[timrpeterson]

400,000 Lines of CSS over 2,000+ files? Is that a common scenario?

[have_faith → timrpeterson]

I assume that's all CSS across all of their projects, not just the main site.

[snarkyturtle]

I feel like postcss would work even better with their workflow since it converts css to an AST and allows you to transform it natively, whereas with sass you have to work around it.

[webo]

Bigger question is, why does a company like Etsy (or any non-trivial project) was not already using some kind of CSS preprocessor from day 1?

[cotillion → webo]

Etsy: Founded: June 18, 2005

SASS: First appeared 2006

CSS: Initial release December 17, 1996

If they knew how to time-travel I hope they focused on implementing other future tech.