I love a good set of statistics. It turns out that Compass does too. Alongside all its other wonderful capabilities, Compass can produce statistics about a project in seconds. I like this a lot. Let me share how it's done.
Tip
For a reminder about how to move around the command line, refer back to Chapter 1, Getting Started with Sass and Compass. In that chapter, we had a basic overview of how to switch folders on the command line.
First, it's necessary to move to the root of the project. The config.rb
file lives in the root, so that's an easy flag to indicate you're at the right 'level'. When at the root of the project, run this command:
compass stats
And check out the results:
Lovely! Compass has effortlessly produced an overview of which files contain the most mixins, properties, rules, and a whole lot more. On a larger project, such information can be very instructive. However, notice that there are no statistics for the compiled CSS. Thankfully, a friendly message at the...