I have recently started using the scss files, especially to customize Bootstrap.
To compile my scss files (and also bootstrap) i use sass from the command line.
Example :
sass /path/to/scss/bootstrap/mycustom.scss /path/to/css/bootstrap.min.css -t compressed -C --sourcemap=none
mycustom.scss is something like that:
$theme-colors: (
"custom-primary": "...",
"custom-secondary": "..."
);
....
....
@import "bootstrap";
This way i can customize bootstrap to my pleasure, without problems.
Today, however, i realized that a graphic component (custom-select) was not rendered correctly. After some research i found that this was caused by the lack of Autoprefixer during compilation, and therefore some css properties were not added to my bootstrap.min.css.
I found this on Bootstrap documentation: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.2/getting-started/build-tools/#autoprefixer
But i can not find a solution to compile Bootstrap (with sass) using Autoprefixer.
This is the exact same issue I was facing. So I look alot on the internet and found one possible solution for this issue. You can fix this issue by using NPM (Node Package manager). Read this or this Article
What you Need,
Create a package.json file or run npm init
Create your command as mention in the article
Add your devDependencies
in your case node-sass autoprefixer onchange and postcss-cli
Run npm install
, (once all package installed)
Run npm start
This is how I do For Example
package.json
{
"name": "web_name",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"main": "index.js",
"devDependencies": {
"autoprefixer": "^9.4.2",
"node-sass": "latest",
"onchange": "^5.2.0",
"postcss-cli": "latest"
},
"scripts": {
"build:sass": "node-sass --output-style=expanded --source-map=true assets/scss/style.scss assets/css/style.css",
"prefix": "npm run build:sass && postcss assets/css/style.css --use=autoprefixer --output=assets/css/style.css",
"start": "onchange \"assets/scss/**/*.scss\" -- npm run prefix"
},
"browserslist": [
"last 2 versions"
],
"repository": {
"type": "git",
"url": "Repo/Path"
},
"keywords": [
"SASS"
],
"author": "Ismail Farooq",
"license": "ISC",
"homepage": "Path",
"dependencies": {}
}
Root Structure
Sass Folder Structure
I guess you are using npm to convert scss to css.
Just need to install postcss which comes inbuilt with autoprefixer plugin.
Then in place of sass in commandline you need to use postcss in commandline to convert to css.
please refere to https://www.npmjs.com/package/postcss#npm-run--cli
can't you keep the bootstrap and your custom css different . as traditionally we try to overwrite bootstrap with our custom css by using another external style , similarly if you want to learn sass try to create your new external stylesheet with sass , leaving the bootstrap code untouch and add your custom style below bootstrap import by only including main.scss which include your custom styles
After i have installed globally post-css
and autoprefixer
npm install -g postcss-cli autoprefixer
i run the following command to reload my CSS file with autoprefixer.
postcss assets/theme.css --replace --use autoprefixer
Note: I will update this post once i have worked on for one command that both handle SASS CLI and Autoprefixer
Edit-1: You can combine 2 terminal commands and compile and minify Bootstrap SCSS, then run Autoprefixer to add vendor prefixes like this with just one command:
sass scss/theme.scss:assets/theme.min.css --style=compressed && postcss assets/theme.min.css --replace --use autoprefixer