Proposal: Replace ruby based sass/compass for node-sass

[knownasilya]

This is just a proposal. But it seems like it's always better to have less technologies involved if possible, and when building with Ember, not everyone is using Ruby, so it makes sense to use node-sass along with grunt-sass to do the compilation of SASS files.

What are other's opinions on this?

[stefanpenner]

unfortunately, i don't think node-sass has feature parity (especially lack of compass), so it will only be good for some users out of the box. (atleast for now).

I am open to a strategy that allows for either, based on the users preference.

[knownasilya]

So maybe using node-sass if compass isn't being used, otherwise use grunt-contrib-sass?

[Pradeek]

I've had some issues building Bootstrap SASS with node-sass, though the same worked fine with grunt-contrib-sass which was supposedly due to some old version of libsass in node-sass. Until node-sass is ready for primetime, I'd stick to grunt-contrib-sass.

[knownasilya]

@Pradeek good to hear. Did you by any chance submit an issue with node-sass about your issue? I think that'd be a good idea.

[Pradeek]

There is already an open issue in node-sass for this (sass/node-sass#233)

[stefanpenner]

although i share the ruby dep concern, i am unsure if this is really actionable for us today.

We can keep this issue around for discussion, but i am closing this for now.