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Grunt + Sass + Autoprefixer
module.exports = function(grunt) {
grunt.initConfig({
pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
sass: {
dist: {
options:{
style:'compressed'
},
files: {
'css/style.css' : 'scss/style.scss'
}
}
},
autoprefixer:{
dist:{
files:{
'css/style.css':'css/style.css'
}
}
},
watch: {
css: {
files: 'scss/*.scss',
tasks: ['sass', 'autoprefixer']
}
}
});
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-sass');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-autoprefixer');
grunt.registerTask('default',['watch']);
}
{
"name": "jshawl.com",
"version": "0.1.0",
"devDependencies": {
"grunt": "~0.4.1",
"grunt-contrib-sass": "~0.3.0",
"grunt-contrib-watch": "~0.4.4",
"grunt-autoprefixer": "~0.2.20130806"
}
}
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jshawl commented Aug 13, 2013

Well, this is pretty rad. All I have to do is

$ grunt and:

  1. My Sass files are watched and compiled
  2. The generated CSS runs through Autoprefixer.

@gotpop
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gotpop commented Jun 25, 2014

Sweet

@jamesongamble
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Awesome, thanks man!

@jstnrs
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jstnrs commented Apr 8, 2015

This works awesome for us, but we do have a problem with our sourcemaps.
The SASS watcher generates a sourcemap and places a comment in the CSS file.
The Autoprefixer watcher however removes this specific comment at the end of the CSS file.

@jstnrs
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jstnrs commented Apr 8, 2015

Solution
enable sourcemaps in sass:

sass: {
  dist: {
    options: {
      sourcemap: true
    },
    files: {
      'style/css/master.css': 'style/sass/master.sass'
    }
  }
}

update sourcemaps with autoprefixer:

autoprefixer: {
  dist: {
    options: {
      map: true
    },
    files: {
      'style/css/master.css': 'style/css/master.css'
    }
  }
}

@manfromanotherland
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This helped me a lot, thanks! The only change is that I'm using postcss with autoprefixer-core instead of grunt-autoprefixer, which has been deprecated in favour of grunt-postcss:

postcss: {
    options: {
        processors: require('autoprefixer-core')({browsers: 'last 2 versions'}),
    },
    dist: {
        src: 'css/*.css',
    },
},

@guillaumebarranco
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Very very nice ! Was looking for how to make the three together simply and now that's perfect for it, thanks !

@wentin
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wentin commented May 4, 2016

this is awesome! Save me so much time and make grunt less puzzling.

@rbk
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rbk commented Jul 22, 2016

Very helpful, thank you!

@dimitriadisg
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Following up on @EdmundoJr's comment, autoprefixer-core has been deprecated as well, use autoprefixer instead (just replace autoprefixer-core with autoprefixer)

@petertwise
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Thanks to this gist a few years ago I finally grasped enough to get my sweet Grunt setup running. Thank you!
Here's my updated version for 2018:
https://gist.github.com/squarecandy/a27671c96f3d226e0d4b9a118bfd1314

  • using grunt-sass and node-sass to avoid ruby dependency
  • using "plain" autoprefixer as suggested above
  • spits out valid source maps, which can be a challenge to get working with a sass > autoprefixer pipeline...

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