File issue

[Ryan26209318c4si]

maybe I have no clue what i am doing but apparently styles.css  and styles.scss  cannot exist together in a folder. When I make the scss file - both files are then erased to blank.

Anyone can help me. Thanks in advance i would like to have an answer for my content writing

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[Nancy OShea]

SCSS and CSS are not the same things.  The former is pre-processed code used in SASS (synthetically awesome style sheets), the latter is final processed code recognized by browsers.

Developers typically prefix their SCSS files with an underscore,  _styles.scss.  SCSS is convenient for advanced developers who combine it with variables and mixins prior to running it through a processor that exports it to final CSS, styles.css.

Hope that helps.  Post back if you have more questions.

[L e n a]

Developers typically prefix their SCSS files with an underscore,  _styles.scss. 

By @Nancy OShea

In fact, this is not quite true. Prefixing a SCSS document with an underscore tells the compiler that this is a partial file, and that this file, which must be imported into another SCSS file, does not need to be rendered as a CSS file.

https://sass-lang.com/guide#topic-4

Therefore, prefixed files will not be rendered, so if you prefix the styles.css file, which is the filename usually used as a root file, this file will never be rendered as CSS.

Generally, we use underscore as a prefix, only for files imported into another file.

[L e n a]

@Ryan26209318c4si I use styles.scss all the time, and although I use a different tree structure (I don't put my SCSS and CSS files in the same folders), for testing purpose, I've never had a problem putting the two in the same folder.

Try to create a new site, blank, just place a SCSS file into it and test... do both files always disappear?