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Autoprefixer vs gulp: What are the differences?
What is Autoprefixer? PostCSS plugin to parse CSS and add vendor prefixes to CSS rules. 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.
What is gulp? The streaming build system. 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.
Autoprefixer can be classified as a tool in the "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" category, while gulp is grouped under "JS Build Tools / JS Task Runners".
gulp is an open source tool with 31.3K GitHub stars and 4.41K GitHub forks. Here's a link to gulp's open source repository on GitHub.
Typeform, PedidosYa, and Myntra are some of the popular companies that use gulp, whereas Autoprefixer is used by Startae, Brigade, and Clippings. gulp has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1163 company stacks & 706 developers stacks; compared to Autoprefixer, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of Autoprefixer
Pros of gulp
- Build speed451
- Readable277
- Code-over-configuration244
- Open source210
- Node streams175
- Intuitive107
- Lots of plugins83
- Works great with browserify66
- Easy to Learn45
- Laravel-elixir17
- build workflow4
- Simple & flexible3
- Great community3
- Stylus intergration2
- Clean Code2
- jade intergration2
- Well documented0