Remove Ruby dependency for Sass

[jimthedev]

First off, love the generator. I think it is worthwhile to consider removing the ruby Sass/Compass requirement in favor of the more lightweight node-sass and bourbon. Thoughts?

[diegonetto]

Thanks! I think node-sass is awesome and extremely fast, but I haven't researched it enough lately. Last time I checked, it was under active development so I can't speak to its stability. How has your experience been?

We could consider pulling it in by using the grunt-sass plugin @sindresorhus created, which would be a fairly simple change to make.

Although I haven't personally used Bourbon, I've heard great things. At the end of the day, users are encouraged to customize their Gruntfile as appropriate according to their own preferences.

The goal with this generator was to help developers interested in building hybrid mobile apps get up and running quickly with an Ionic seed app, but also to (hopefully) expose developers passionate about mobile apps to the world of intelligent workflows and powerful build systems that has mostly only seen exposure with web applications.

[robkorv]

I favor a starters setup with as little dependencies on other libraries as possible. I'm exploring Ionic for a company who mainly uses windows as development environment. I never got a clear error or info message that Compass needs ruby.

Maybe add a line like "This depends on Ruby" when the choice for Sass/Compass is given until you feel more save to use a 100% node sass compiler.

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Really like the generator btw ;)

[diegonetto]

Thanks for the support! I've changed the default option for that prompt to be N so people don't accidentally hit enter not knowing what Compass does.