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Alternatives to PostCSS

Stylus, Sass, CSS Modules, Less, and node-sass are the most popular alternatives and competitors to PostCSS.
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What is PostCSS and what are its top alternatives?

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.
PostCSS is a tool in the CSS Pre-processors / Extensions category of a tech stack.
PostCSS is an open source tool with 28.7K GitHub stars and 1.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to PostCSS's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to PostCSS

  • Stylus
    Stylus

    Stylus is a revolutionary new language, providing an efficient, dynamic, and expressive way to generate CSS. Supporting both an indented syntax and regular CSS style. ...

  • Sass
    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. ...

  • CSS Modules
    CSS Modules

    It is a CSS file in which all class names and animation names are scoped locally by default. The key words here are scoped locally. With this, your CSS class names become similar to local variables in JavaScript. It goes into the compiler, and CSS comes out the other side. ...

  • Less
    Less

    Less is a CSS pre-processor, meaning that it extends the CSS language, adding features that allow variables, mixins, functions and many other techniques that allow you to make CSS that is more maintainable, themable and extendable. ...

  • node-sass
    node-sass

    It is a library that provides binding for Node.js to LibSass, the C version of the popular stylesheet preprocessor, Sass. It allows you to natively compile .scss files to css at incredible speed and automatically via a connect middleware. ...

  • styled-components
    styled-components

    Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress 💅 ...

  • Webpack
    Webpack

    A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows to load parts for the application on demand. Through "loaders" modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff. ...

  • Autoprefixer
    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. ...