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Less vs PurifyCSS vs Sass

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Less
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PurifyCSS
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Sass
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Advice on Less, PurifyCSS, and Sass
awesomebanana2018
CEO at ME! · | 5 upvotes · 347.9K views
Needs advice
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PostCSSPostCSSSassSass
and
StylusStylus

Originally, I was going to start using Sass with Parcel, but then I learned about Stylus, which looked interesting because it can get the property values of something directly instead of through variables, and PostCSS, which looked interesting because you can customize your Pre/Post-processing. Which tool would you recommend?

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Replies (2)
Andrii Kirmas
| 2 upvotes · 110.4K views
Recommends
on
PostCSSPostCSS

You're not correct with saying "vs Postcss". You're using Less/Sass/Stylus/... to produce "CSS" (maybe extended means it has some future features) and then in any case PostCSS will play (it is shipped with Parcel/NextJS/CRA/...)

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Enyo Onuche
| 1 upvotes · 25K views
Recommends

SASS

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Decisions about Less, PurifyCSS, and Sass
Noel Broda
Founder, CEO, CTO at NoFilter · | 2 upvotes · 14.6K views
Chose
SassSass
over
CSS ModulesCSS Modulesstyled-componentsstyled-components
at

We know that Sass is not a replace for CSS, but in my mind there is no CSS with no Sass.

One of the first complement/plugins I add to the environment, are the Sass processing files/demons.

I couldn't imagine going back to pure CSS. Sass is even the way to go, regarding Styled Components, CSS Modules, and all the other options.

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Cory Bell
at Bell Code · | 4 upvotes · 37.5K views
Chose
styled-componentsstyled-components
over
LessLessSassSass
in

JSS is makes a lot of sense when styling React components and styled-components is a really nice implementation of JSS. I still get to write pure CSS, but in a more componentized way. With CSS post-processors like SASS and LESS, you spend a lot of time deciding where your .scss or .less files belong, which classes should be shared, and generally fighting the component nature of React. With styled-components, you get the best of CSS and React. In this project, I have ZERO CSS files or global CSS classes and I leverage mixins quite a bit.

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Pros of Less
Pros of PurifyCSS
Pros of Sass
  • 215
    Better than css
  • 177
    Variables
  • 141
    Mixins
  • 99
    Maintainable
  • 79
    Used by bootstrap
  • 55
    Open source
  • 50
    Extendable
  • 43
    Functions
  • 39
    Dynamic
  • 30
    Fast
  • 2
    CSS is valid LESS, very easy to pick up
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    • 613
      Variables
    • 594
      Mixins
    • 466
      Nested rules
    • 410
      Maintainable
    • 300
      Functions
    • 149
      Modular flexible code
    • 143
      Open source
    • 112
      Selector inheritance
    • 107
      Dynamic
    • 96
      Better than cs
    • 5
      Used by Bootstrap
    • 3
      If and for function
    • 2
      Better than less
    • 1
      Inheritance (@extend)
    • 1
      Custom functions

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    Cons of Less
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          Needs to be compiled

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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 PurifyCSS?

        Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps.

        What is 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.

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