>your mention of 'CSS' makes me guess this is a web application, in which case you should be able to read the source code and figure out how to build it
pfft. If it's a web app (from 2015-2018) I have even more sympathy for the OP than on any other platform.
Here's an example from last year-ish:
* Get repo from external contractor (let's ignore the 1+ weeks trying to get an install of Git approved)
* Try to get npm working - can't get through our firewall
* Figure out the right chaining proxy to use
* Spend a non-zero amount of time trying to work out all the right bits to flip to turn off ALL SSL verification from npm because interception proxy
* Hit the Windows MAX_PATH limit and have to spend ages trying to delete files that NPM's created (original developer used Linux)
* After npm starts downloading stuff correctly, suddenly it needs a binary dependency (and thus more build tools)
* Give up and check in said binary dependency from elsewhere
* Finally build all the CSS and minified Javascript and check it all into source control with a warning to other devs not to rebuild it unless absolutely necessary
pfft. If it's a web app (from 2015-2018) I have even more sympathy for the OP than on any other platform.
Here's an example from last year-ish:
* Get repo from external contractor (let's ignore the 1+ weeks trying to get an install of Git approved)
* Try to get npm working - can't get through our firewall
* Figure out the right chaining proxy to use
* Spend a non-zero amount of time trying to work out all the right bits to flip to turn off ALL SSL verification from npm because interception proxy
* Hit the Windows MAX_PATH limit and have to spend ages trying to delete files that NPM's created (original developer used Linux)
* After npm starts downloading stuff correctly, suddenly it needs a binary dependency (and thus more build tools)
* Give up and check in said binary dependency from elsewhere
* Finally build all the CSS and minified Javascript and check it all into source control with a warning to other devs not to rebuild it unless absolutely necessary