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node-sass vs Stylus: What are the differences?

What is 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..

What is Stylus? Expressive, robust, feature-rich CSS language built for nodejs. 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.

node-sass and Stylus can be primarily classified as "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" tools.

node-sass is an open source tool with 6.49K GitHub stars and 949 GitHub forks. Here's a link to node-sass's open source repository on GitHub.

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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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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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Pros of node-sass
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      Simple
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      Indented syntax
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      Efficient
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      Built for node.js
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      Open source
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      Expressive
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      Maintainable
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      Feature-rich
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      Better than CS
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      Variables
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      Functions
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      @extend directive
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      Contempt for curly brackets
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      Very clean
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      Mixins
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      Is Easy
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      No colons, semi-colons or even curly braces
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      Its unique
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      Dynamic selectors
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      Scriptable
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      Easy Efficiently
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      Transparent
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      Supports orthogonal architecture

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      Needs Microsoft BuildTools and Python 2.7 to install
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      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.

      What is 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.

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      What are some alternatives to node-sass and Stylus?
      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.
      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.
      PostCSS
      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.
      Compass
      The compass core framework is a design-agnostic framework that provides common code that would otherwise be duplicated across other frameworks and extensions.
      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.
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