Koala is a GUI application for LESS, Sass and CoffeeScript compilation, to help web developers with them development more efficiently.
v2.0.3 release Changelog
- Multi-language Support: support for LESS, Sass, Compass Framework, CoffeeScript and Dust.
- Real-time Compilation: listens to files, compiles automatically when file changes occur. Everything runs in the background without the need for user input.
- Compile Options Support: compilation options are avaliable per file.
- Compression: automatic compression of code after compilation has completed.
- Error Notification: if an error is encountered during compilation, Koala will display an error notification.
- Cross-platform: Koala runs perfectly on Windows, Linux and Mac.
koala
is built with node-webkit. node-webkit is an app runtime based on Chromium and node.js. You can write native apps in HTML and Javascript with node-webkit.
- Clone Koala to the local;
- Download node-webkit prebuilt binaries for your system environment.
- For windows, copy
nw.exe, nw.pak, icudt.dll
tokoala/src
directory, and install Ruby tokoala/src/ruby
;
For Linux, copynw, nw.pak
, install Ruby:sudo apt-get install ruby
;
For Mac OS X, copynode-webkit.app
, OS X already have Ruby installed. - Run the
nw
executable file.
koala
's code uses the Apache license, Version 2.0, see our LICENSE
file.