Jekyll Static Page CSS Not Rendering - sass

Question

I am building a blog for myself using Jekyll, however, when I open the page in my browser, the SCSS fails to load. I try to navigate to the SCSS file through my browser but to no avail, the browser believes that the SCSS does not exist.
Here is how I add the stylesheet to the HTML:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="style/css" href="/_sass/_base.scss">
I did this to all of my stylesheets, and yet the it doesn't work.
Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You do not link to stylesheets with an href to "/_sass/_base.scss".
Instead you should do the following:
create another directory to hold your "stylesheet", say, css/.
then add an empty stylesheet with an empty front matter block (required)
---
---
// this is an empty stylesheet named "style.scss"
// use #import here to load partials from your _sass folder
import your partial(s) into the above "stylesheet".
---
---
// this is an empty stylesheet named "style.scss"
// use #import here to load partials from your _sass folder
#import "base";
#import "mixins";
link your HTML page with the stylesheet:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="style/css" href="{{ 'css/style.css' | relative_url }}">
...and done!
Takeaways:
Import files from your _sass into a "dedicated stylesheet".
The dedicated stylesheet must contain the front matter block (can be empty).
Link your HTML file with the dedicated stylesheet.
Linked file has a .css extension even if your source file was css/style.scss or css/style.sass
You may hard-code the markup or use a Liquid construct to link the stylesheet.
When using a Liquid construct, prefer using the relative_url filter instead of using {{ 'css/style.css' | prepend: site.baseurl }} or {{ site.baseurl }}/css/style.css