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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.
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?
Pros of node-sass
Pros of Stylus
- Simple69
- Indented syntax54
- Efficient38
- Built for node.js33
- Open source32
- Expressive24
- Maintainable21
- Feature-rich17
- Better than CS13
- Variables6
- Functions5
- @extend directive3
- Contempt for curly brackets2
- Very clean2
- Mixins2
- Is Easy2
- No colons, semi-colons or even curly braces2
- Its unique1
- Dynamic selectors1
- Scriptable1
- Easy Efficiently1
- Transparent1
- Supports orthogonal architecture1
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Cons of node-sass
- Needs Microsoft BuildTools and Python 2.7 to install1
Cons of Stylus
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