Using Recess - CSS Hinter on Windows

Perhaps the best CSS hinter I've ever used , in reality it's the only one I have ever used . It open sourced a few years back and hardly ever got noticed .

A hinter basically is a piece of code that formats the ugly looking code keeping it tidy and consistent .
This post outlines the process of using Recess on a windows set up .
NOTE : You'll need to have Node.js installed.

After installing Node.js , search for cmd . And select the one which says Node.js command prompt . Get it?

Now recess is stored in a web Node Package archive known as the Node Package manager .

And the syntax for installing Node packages is

npm install -g [ package name ] 

So for installing recess we'll type

npm install -g recess

You'll see the comand prompt buzzing with a dozed of  http get requests , so if you have a slow internet connection sit back and relax .

After installing RECESS there are a couple of things that you can do with it , major ones being compiling
it,checking for errors , style sheet flow etc.

Using RECESS

NOTE: All this is done within the Node.js command prompt

The general syntax is

 recess [ path ] --[options]

You can specify the following options

•  noIDs - Don’t style IDs like #foo
•  noJSPrefix - Don’t style .js- prefixed classnames
•  noOverqualifying - Don’t overqualify your selectors, like div#foo.bar
•  noUnderscores - Don’t use underscores when naming classes, like .my_class
•  noUniversalSelectors - Don’t use the universal selector, *
•  zeroUnits - Don’t add the unit to a value of 0, like 0px
•  strictPropertyOrder - Enforce a strict property order (order defined here)

•  help - provides a quick cli cheatsheet
•  compile - outputs your compiled source
•  includePath - additional directory to look in for relative LESS imports (repeat for each additional directory)
•  compress - outputs your compiled source, but minified
•  watch - watch a directory and automatically compile a file when changes occur

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