ExtJS 6 was released at the end of June, and one of the nicest new features in it is a change to their CSS tooling – they’ve replaced Compass with a JavaScript-based implementation of SASS called Fashion. One of the neatest features is “Live Update” – this takes the traditional ‘watch’ approach one step further, and instead of just rebuilding your CSS when you change a SCSS source file, it updates the CSS inside the running browser, without needing a page refresh! This is just awesome, and not something I’ve seen before in my (admittedly limited) experience with web development tools.
But there’s just one problem… you have to use the embedded web server started with the sencha app watch command. Which is fine if all you’ve got is a webpage, but if you’re dealing with web services (as so many web apps do), it’s a bit restricting – at least if you don’t want to configure your app or server to allow cross-site scripting.
But Live Update is too awesome to forego! What to do?
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