plethoralabs / koala

Koala is a GUI application for less, sass and coffeescript compilation, to help web developers to the development more efficient.

Introduction

http://koala-app.com

Koala is a GUI application for LESS, Sass and CoffeeScript compilation, to help web developers use these tools more efficiently for development.

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Features

• 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.

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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.

How to run Koala source code?

1. Clone Koala to the local;
2. Download node-webkit prebuilt binaries for your system environment.
3. For windows, copy nw.exe, nw.pak, icudt.dll to koala/src directory, and install Ruby to koala/src/ruby;
   For Linux, copy nw, nw.pak, install Ruby: sudo apt-get install ruby;
   For Mac OS X, copy node-webkit.app, OS X already have Ruby installed.
4. Run the nw executable file.

License

koala's code uses the Apache license, Version 2.0, see our LICENSE file.