Please refer Faq's page in documentation itself for queries and customization like Colors, RTL, Dark style..etc.
Slica comes with power of SCSS. The css files can be generated from scss by simply following below steps:
Gulp is a JavaScipt streaming task runner. It automate many development tasks. Using gulp you can perform tasks like running a local server, minifying code, compilation, Browser sync ,optimizing images, etc... We are using gulp which allows to easily compilation of scss to csss. You can read it more about it here.
Please follow below steps to install and setup all prerequisites:
Make sure to have the Node.js installed & running in your computer. If you have already installed nodejs on your computer, you can skip this step, otherwise install nodejs on your computer,
Make sure to have the Gulp installed &
running in your computer. If you have already installed gulp on your computer, you can skip
this step. In order to install, just run command npm install -g gulp from
your terminal.
After Completion of gulp Install. open gulpfile.js And install the "Declaration of gulp variables" in your command promt. In order to install, just run command npm install gulp, const sass = require('gulp-sass')(require('sass'));,
npm install gulp-postcss, npm install autoprefixer, npm install gulp-sourcemaps,
npm install browser-sync from your terminal.
Make sure to have all above prerequisites installed & running in your computer. If you want to install more variables for your template, just declare the variables in gulpfile.js after that run in command promt
To setup, follow below mentioned steps:
Make sure to have all above prerequisites installed & running in your computer
Open your terminal, go to your folder and enter the command npm install. This
would install all required dependencies in node_modules folder.
After you finished with above steps, you can run the command to compile scss into css:
gulp watch
| Command | Description |
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gulp
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Runs the project locally, starts the development server and watches for any changes in your code, including your html, javascript, sass, etc. The development server is accessible at http://localhost:3000. |
gulp watch
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In this template gulp watch command is for what ever changes made in scss folder, will watch and run an appropriate task.
All the CSS files under assets/css/ folder will be watched and upon changes made to these files, the styles task will be executed.
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