A while back I started adding Grunt to my workflow. I also started to work with Sass and I wrote a quick post about Getting started with Grunt and Sass. I started using Grunt after hearing so much about it from the jQueryTO conference. At that point it was fairly well known to many, but quite new to me! I fell in love. And since I have been getting into Sass more I decided it was time to start using Compass. So lets take a quick look at getting that going with Grunt.
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Archive for October, 2013
Add Compass to your Grunt task
Testing on devices locally using mamp
Here is a little tip I just picked up. You can test your responsive builds on actual devices using MAMP. This is new to me, and hopefully new to you!
To get this going all you need to do is install MAMP and start it up, I will not go into installing MAMP, because pretty much you just click a few things and you are up and running. My set up is just the regular MAMP, no need to go pro. From the Preferences menu select the Apache tab and point the document root towards your project.
Normally you would now just open a browser and go to localhost:8888
and be up and running with your project. But in order to get to this site from your device there is one extra step. You will need to find your IP address, on a Mac just go to the networks panel in the OS System Pretences and it should be just under the status of your connection on the first screen. With that information in hand all you have do is navigate to 192.168.0.196:8888
(where the ip matches your own) on your devices and that is it! You should be up and running.