title: Laravel with XAMPP with SASS/SCSS
body: <p>I'm using Laravel locally with XAMPP, with some code written by someone else. After installing everything I get the following directory tree:</p>
  
  <pre><code>xampp
      ...
      htdocs
          myproj
              .git
              app
                  assets
                  classes
                  commands
                  config
                  controllers
                  database
                  lang
                  models
                  start
                  storage
                  tests
                  views
              bootstrap
              provider
              public
              sphinx
              vendor
              wpplugin
          ...
      ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know the code uses Zurb Foundation (among other tools), with SCSS files.</p>
  
  <p>In XAMPP Control Panel, in the Apache httpd.conf, I define <code>DocumentRoot</code> as <code>C:/xampp/htdocs/myproj/public</code> and this works fine.</p>
  
  <p>The files <code>xxxxxx.blade.php</code> under <code>views/layouts</code> contain blade lines that look like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{{ stylesheet_link_tag('yyyyyy') }}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Googling this, I think (not sure) it's using something called CodeSleeve to resolve yyyyyy, which, as I understand, look for <code>yyyyyy.css</code> files under <code>app/assets/stylesheets</code>. In this directory I can see both <code>yyyyyy.css</code> files and <code>_yyyyyy.scss</code> files, and I can see the former is presumably calling the latter with a <code>require</code> command in an alleged comment.</p>
  
  <p>As long as I update controllers and/or views, I can see the changes reflected immediately under localhost in the browser. However, any attempt to modify a <code>_yyyyyy.scss</code> (even as much as adding a space) - results in an error in browsing, losing all the styling etc.</p>
  
  <p>My question is: What is the mechanism that presumably converts the SCSS files into CSS in real-time, and how can I do testing locally with modifying the SCSS files?</p>