{"id":798,"date":"2019-11-20T09:50:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-240-fall-19-stein\/?p=798"},"modified":"2019-11-20T09:50:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:50:54","slug":"installing-scout-and-basic-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-240-fall-19-stein\/2019\/11\/20\/installing-scout-and-basic-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Scout and Basic Use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you write in Sass (SCSS) you need to have those files converted (transpiled) into CSS. Scout App, is a quick way to do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video walks through installing Sass on macOS. Note that you can install Sass on the Desktop or Documents so you can add it to a school computer without admin privileges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/374366816?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen title=\"Scout-App-Install-2560x1440\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Text Instructions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/scout-app.io\">https:\/\/scout-app.io<\/a><\/li><li>Scroll down to Downloads<\/li><li>Click on the download for your OS (Linux, OSX, Windows)<\/li><li>Move the file to the folder you want it to stay in<ol><li>At home you would do Applications folder. In school Desktop or Documents<\/li><\/ol><\/li><li>Open the file that is downloaded (may ask for permission).<\/li><li>Scout App should open.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Then you can start adding projects (just folders, aka repositories).<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Click Add Project or drag folder over to Scout<\/li><li>Make sure the Input Folder is pointing to your Sass folder<\/li><li>Make sure the Output folder is pointing to your CSS folder<\/li><li>Click the blue triangle to start compiling your Sass into CSS. <\/li><li>Make sure to leave this running while you&#8217;re working on your files.<\/li><li>Fix any errors that come up.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you write in Sass (SCSS) you need to have those files converted (transpiled) into CSS. Scout App, is a quick way to do this. This video walks through installing Sass on macOS. Note that you can install Sass on the Desktop or Documents so you can add it to a school computer without admin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[115,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-resource","7":"category-tools","8":"tag-sass","9":"tag-scout","10":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-240-fall-19-stein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-240-fall-19-stein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-240-fall-19-stein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-240-fall-19-stein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-240-fall-19-stein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-240-fall-19-stein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-240-fall-19-stein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-240-fall-19-stein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-240-fall-19-stein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/mmp-240-fall-19-stein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}