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Less vs node-sass: What are the differences?

Less: The dynamic stylesheet language. 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.js bindings to libsass *. 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..

Less and node-sass belong to "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" category of the tech stack.

Less and node-sass are both open source tools. It seems that Less with 16.1K GitHub stars and 3.45K forks on GitHub has more adoption than node-sass with 6.49K GitHub stars and 949 GitHub forks.

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Better than css
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Variables
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Mixins
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Maintainable
79
Used by bootstrap
55
Open source
50
Extendable
43
Functions
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Dynamic
30
Fast
2
CSS is valid LESS, very easy to pick up

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Needs Microsoft BuildTools and Python 2.7 to install

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What is 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.

What is 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.

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What are some alternatives to Less and node-sass?

CSS 3

CSS3 is the latest evolution of the Cascading Style Sheets language and aims at extending CSS2.1. It brings a lot of long-awaited novelties, like rounded corners, shadows, gradients, transitions or animations, as well as new layouts like multi-columns, flexible box or grid layouts. Experimental parts are vendor-prefixed and should either be avoided in production environments, or used with extreme caution as both their syntax and semantics can change in the future.

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.

Animate.css

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.

css-loader

The css-loader interprets @import and url() like import/require() and will resolve them.

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.

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