
Koala
Koala is a gui for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript. Koala can run in windows, mac, and linux.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
What is Koala?
Koala is a gui for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript. Koala can run in windows, mac, and linux.
Features Multi-language Support: support for Less,Sass, CoffeeScript and Compass Framework.
Real-time Compilation: listening files, compile automatically when the file changes, that everything is running in the background without user action.
Compile Options Support: you can set the compiler options for each file.
Compression: auto compress code after compilation is completed.
Error Notification: if encountered an error during compilation, koala will pop up the error message.
Cross-platform: koala can run in windows, linux and mac.
Project has stopped as per notice on repo: https://github.com/oklai/koala
Koala Screenshots



Comments and Reviews
Tags
- CSS / Stylesheets
- less
- Web Development
- compass
- scss
- sass
- coffeescript
- ubuntu
- compilation
Its 'watch' feature is implemented terrible (at least, on Windows). Instead of subscribing to directory change event, it's pulling files in infinite loop, causing locking issues under Windows. Under some conditions it can start fork bomb, when you put multiple files to watch in same directory - each file's watcher will race condition each other and spawn large amount on node.exe instaces (when you use external compiler. with internal - it will spawn multiple alert messages and won't work either). So, I cannot recommend it. At least, under Windows. You can easily make your system hang due to fork bomb.
Not updated since 2017.
Itäs a good alternative to Prepros, but it hasn't been updated for years and is thus considered to be abandoned.
[Edited by papa_the_tapa, March 12]
Koala does get updates. Latest update is 2017-11-19 which is very recent.
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