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I'm using the Zurb Foundation 4 (S)CSS framework, and I'm running into an issue of massively duplicated styles. This is because in every file that I @import 'foundation' in, all styles from Foundation are also imported (rules for body, .row, .button and friends). This leads to long SCSS compile times and a hard to navigate web developer console in Chrome, as all of Zurb's styles are declared four or five times.
To mitigate this, I've created a globals scss file, which contains the overrideable variables that Foundation uses (it's copy-pasted from foundation_and_overrides.scss, then foundation_and_overrides import globals). Importing just the globals.scss file gets rid of duplication only in files that don't make use of Foundation mixins.
It's in the files which make use of Foundation mixins: Can I import only the mixins from an SCSS file, without importing the concrete Foundation styles?
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To use variables across multiple files in SASS is carried out by @import rule of SASS. @import rule which import Sass and CSS stylesheets for providing variables, @mixins and functions. Such that combine all stylesheets together for compiled css. It also imports URL such as frameworks like Bootstrap etc..
It is now possible to import css files directly into your sass file. The following PR in github solves the issue. The syntax is the same as now - @import "your/path/to/the/file" , without an extension after the file name. This will import your file directly.
Sass Importing Files Just like CSS, Sass also supports the @import directive. The @import directive allows you to include the content of one file in another.
Imports are an all or nothing thing. Everything that's in the file is what you get. If you look through the source of Foundation, though, there are variables you can modify that will suppress emitting styles (eg. in buttons, setting $include-html-button-classes to false will disable the styles). This design pattern is Foundation specific, you cannot expect other libraries to be authored this way.
When you import foundation via @import "foundation", you're importing this file: https://github.com/zurb/foundation/blob/master/scss/foundation.scss. As you can see, it imports other files. You don't have to import this file if you don't need everything: just import the specific file you want (eg. @import 'foundation/components/side-nav' for only the side-nav file).
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