What is Autoprefixer?
It is a CSS post processor. It combs through compiled CSS files to add or remove vendor prefixes like -webkit and -moz after checking the code.
Autoprefixer is a tool in the CSS Pre-processors / Extensions category of a tech stack.
Who uses Autoprefixer?
Companies
72 companies reportedly use Autoprefixer in their tech stacks, including Startaê, Clippings, and checkmk.
Developers
411 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Autoprefixer.
Autoprefixer Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Autoprefixer?
gulp
Build system automating tasks: minification and copying of all JavaScript files, static images. More capable of watching files to automatically rerun the task when a file changes.
PostCSS
PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JS plugins. These plugins can support variables and mixins, transpile future CSS syntax, inline images, and more.
Sass
Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It's translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
