# mechio/takana

Takana lets you see your SCSS and CSS style changes live, in the browser, as you type them

Repository: https://github.com/mechio/takana
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/takana
Homepage: http://takana.io
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2017-03-03T18:25:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4608, "days_push": 3470, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1105, forks 55 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:36.359235+00:00)

## What it is
Takana is a Sass/CSS live editor that shows SCSS and CSS style changes in the browser as you type them. It runs as a Node.js CLI server paired with a JavaScript snippet in your HTML, integrating with editors like Sublime Text.

## Use cases
- see scss changes live in the browser as i type
- live edit css styles without refreshing the page
- hot reload sass stylesheets during development
- preview style changes instantly while editing in sublime text
- live css editor for frontend development

## When to choose
- you develop with SCSS/CSS in Sublime Text on OSX or Linux and want instant style previews
- your project compiles Sass with libsass or node-sass

## When to avoid
- you use a modern bundler with built-in hot module replacement (webpack, Vite)
- you need Windows support or editors other than Sublime Text
- you need an actively maintained tool - the last release was in 2017

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: css-framework, developer-tools, web-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: cli
- tags: scss, live-reload, css-editing, sublime-text, libsass, macos, linux, nodejs

## Member repositories
- mechio/takana (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:36.359235+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:44:34.717218+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mechio/takana (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:36.359235+00:00, sha 11060ceb8050)
  - homepage: http://takana.io (fetched 2026-08-29T12:47:48.213705+00:00, sha c129aa8b3580)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/takana (fetched 2026-08-29T12:47:48.222809+00:00, sha 2d514cd2b067)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.