How to use scss files in Laravel

Question

I have downloaded a free HTML theme.

If I open index.html file of the theme in the browser it works perfectly.

However, now I need to integrate this theme in my Laravel Application. If I inspect element in the index.html file loaded in the browser, I can see that some .scss files are getting called.

The scss folder is present in the theme folder but I really don't know how to include this into my project

Answer 1

You can think of SASS as high level css which provides you with more features like making variable and easier css syntax etc ... but since browsers doesn't understands SASS you have to compile SASS into CSS there are multiple ways to do that.

First if your theme folder already has complied SASS (CSS Folder) you can use it if not and want to integrate with Laravel please follow these steps

1. Copy everything in your SASS Folder and place it in "/resources/assets/sass" so they can be found by Laravel to be compiled

2. now you have to compile SASS into css you can use gulp manually or make use of Laravel mix which is already implemented for you by Laravel

3. Laravel Ships with packages.json file you will find that in your app root directory so before being able to compile SASS you have to run npm install in your root directory (make sure that you have npm and node installed)

4. after running npm install now you can run either one of these to compile any sass files you have in "resources/assets/sass"

   npm run dev //this will compile one time only
   npm run watch //this will automatically watch for any changes and compile 
   

Now your sass files should have been compiled to css you can find the compiled css files in your "public/css" folder.

Hopefully you found this helpful you can read more about this in Laravel docs frontend section specifically Laravel Mix here