The compass core framework is a design-agnostic framework that provides common code that would otherwise be duplicated across other frameworks and extensions.
Compass is a tool in the Templating Languages & Extensions category of a tech stack.
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It is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and general just-add-water-awesomeness.
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Sass, CodeKit, Ember-cli are some of the popular tools that integrate with Compass. Here's a list of all 3 tools that integrate with Compass.
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