Snowdog Leads Community Frontend Project With Magento

For the past couple of months we have been working on Frontend Tools (opens in a new tab) and Sass blank theme for Magento 2 (opens in a new tab). It is available on Github and for some time it attracts attention of many frontend developers. The idea was to make a front-devs life easier and contribute to the Magento community so everybody could benefit from the work that we have found necessary.

We are really happy about the feedback and recognition. It was unexpected, but very encouraging. The attention that is focused on our tools gives us even better motivation to work on improvements and further development.

#magento (opens in a new tab) front-end developers show this @SnowdogApps (opens in a new tab) #github (opens in a new tab) project some love https://t.co/XvPRdLUpIH (opens in a new tab) #sass (opens in a new tab) #css (opens in a new tab) ✊ pic.twitter.com/yTD5KiRpJa (opens in a new tab) - Ian Cassidy (@iancassidyweb) April 22, 2016 (opens in a new tab)

You want SASS with #magento2 (opens in a new tab) check out https://t.co/gor7p3fRyM (opens in a new tab) plugged by @benmarks (opens in a new tab) during #msthh (opens in a new tab) thanks @SnowdogApps (opens in a new tab) - Benno Lippert (@bennolippert) May 17, 2016 (opens in a new tab)

We didn’t wait long for the community reaction:

Yesterday we break barrier of 1000 views and 100 UU on sass theme – @iancassidyweb (opens in a new tab) thanks! https://t.co/rfFY3Otua5 (opens in a new tab) pic.twitter.com/VcVCnqoPp8 (opens in a new tab) - Bartek Igielski (@Igloczek) April 23, 2016 (opens in a new tab)

Today we are very happy to confirm that we will work on a project together with Magento. The goal is to adjust migration from Less to Sass that we have created in the way it fits to Magento core. On his blog Alan Kent (opens in a new tab) tells more about Less and Sass differences, reasons of the decision that was made and how Snowdog will lead the community project.

The idea is to develop the new Sass files as a community project, get feeedback from multiple interested parties, and then merge into Magento 2 at a future date. Alan Kent (opens in a new tab)

The plan is to finish the project before the end of 2016. Read more on Alan’s blog (opens in a new tab) and follow Snowdog on Twitter (opens in a new tab), we will keep on updating you on any relevant changes and if you want to contribute – just drop us a line. It’s a community project after all!