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Compass vs PurifyCSS: What are the differences?
What is Compass? A Stylesheet Authoring Environment that makes your website design simpler to implement and easier to maintain. The compass core framework is a design-agnostic framework that provides common code that would otherwise be duplicated across other frameworks and extensions.
What is PurifyCSS? Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps. Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps.
Compass and PurifyCSS can be primarily classified as "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" tools.
Compass and PurifyCSS are both open source tools. PurifyCSS with 9.11K GitHub stars and 383 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Compass with 6.91K GitHub stars and 1.23K GitHub forks.
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What is Compass?
The compass core framework is a design-agnostic framework that provides common code that would otherwise be duplicated across other frameworks and extensions.
What is PurifyCSS?
Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps.
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What are some alternatives to Compass and PurifyCSS?
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