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Published inAug 2016
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Matt Lambert is a designer and developer with 15+ years of experience. He currently works full-time as a Senior Software Engineer for CA Technologies in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In his free time he is an author, artist, and musician. In 2005, Matt founded Cardeo Creative, which is a small web design studio based in Vancouver. He works with a select list of clients on a part-time basis while producing his own products on the side. To date, Matt has self-published 3 additional development books titled: Mastering Bootstrap, CSS3 Handbook, and the Freelance Startup Guide.
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Updating your variables


The main difference in variables is the symbol used to denote one. In Less we use an @ symbol for our variables, while in Sass you use the $ symbol. Here are a couple of examples for you:

/* LESS */ 
 
@red: #c00; 
@black: #000; 
@white: #fff; 
 
/* SASS */ 
 
$red: #c00; 
$black: #000; 
$white: #fff; 

As you can see, that is pretty easy to do. A simple find and replace should do most of the work for you. However, if you are using @import in your stylesheets, make sure this retains an @ symbol.

Updating @import statements

Another small change in Sass is how you import different stylesheets using the @import keyword. First, let's take a look at how you do this in Less:

@import "components/_buttons.less"; 

Now let's compare how we do this using Sass:

@import "components/_buttons.scss"; 

As you can see, it's almost identical. You just need to make sure you name all your files with the .scss extension. Then update...

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Matt Lambert is a designer and developer with 15+ years of experience. He currently works full-time as a Senior Software Engineer for CA Technologies in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In his free time he is an author, artist, and musician. In 2005, Matt founded Cardeo Creative, which is a small web design studio based in Vancouver. He works with a select list of clients on a part-time basis while producing his own products on the side. To date, Matt has self-published 3 additional development books titled: Mastering Bootstrap, CSS3 Handbook, and the Freelance Startup Guide.
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