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  5. Pug vs Stylus

Pug vs Stylus

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Overview

Stylus
Stylus
Stacks447
Followers411
Votes331
GitHub Stars11.3K
Forks1.1K
Pug
Pug
Stacks1.3K
Followers1.2K
Votes467

Pug vs Stylus: What are the differences?

What is Pug? Robust, elegant, feature rich template engine for nodejs. This project was formerly known as "Jade." Pug is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js and browsers.

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.

Pug belongs to "Templating Languages & Extensions" category of the tech stack, while Stylus can be primarily classified under "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions".

"Elegant html" is the top reason why over 118 developers like Pug, while over 65 developers mention "Simple" as the leading cause for choosing Stylus.

Pug is an open source tool with 18.4K GitHub stars and 1.9K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Pug's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Pug has a broader approval, being mentioned in 174 company stacks & 119 developers stacks; compared to Stylus, which is listed in 69 company stacks and 45 developer stacks.

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Advice on Stylus, Pug

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Jun 17, 2020

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Originally, I was going to start using @{Sass}|tool:1171| with Parcel, but then I learned about @{Stylus}|tool:1172|, which looked interesting because it can get the property values of something directly instead of through variables, and @{PostCSS}|tool:3339|, which looked interesting because you can customize your Pre/Post-processing. Which tool would you recommend?

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Detailed Comparison

Stylus
Stylus
Pug
Pug

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.

This project was formerly known as "Jade." Pug is a high performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml and implemented with JavaScript for Node.js and browsers.

Statistics
GitHub Stars
11.3K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
1.1K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
447
Stacks
1.3K
Followers
411
Followers
1.2K
Votes
331
Votes
467
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 69
    Simple
  • 54
    Indented syntax
  • 38
    Efficient
  • 33
    Built for node.js
  • 32
    Open source
Pros
  • 138
    Elegant html
  • 90
    Great with nodejs
  • 59
    Very short syntax
  • 59
    Open source
  • 54
    Structured with indentation
Integrations
Node.js
Node.js
Node.js
Node.js

What are some alternatives to Stylus, Pug?

Sass

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.

Less

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.

TypeScript

TypeScript

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It's a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.

Handlebars.js

Handlebars.js

Handlebars.js is an extension to the Mustache templating language created by Chris Wanstrath. Handlebars.js and Mustache are both logicless templating languages that keep the view and the code separated like we all know they should be.

Mustache

Mustache

Mustache is a logic-less template syntax. It can be used for HTML, config files, source code - anything. It works by expanding tags in a template using values provided in a hash or object. We call it "logic-less" because there are no if statements, else clauses, or for loops. Instead there are only tags. Some tags are replaced with a value, some nothing, and others a series of values.

Slim Lang

Slim Lang

Slim is a template language whose goal is to reduce the view syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic. It started as an exercise to see how much could be removed from a standard html template (<, >, closing tags, etc...). As more people took an interest in Slim, the functionality grew and so did the flexibility of the syntax.

PostCSS

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.

RactiveJS

RactiveJS

Ractive was originally created at theguardian.com to produce news applications. Ractive takes your Mustache templates and transforms them into a lightweight representation of the DOM – then when your data changes, it intelligently updates the real DOM.

Bourbon

Bourbon

Bourbon is a library of pure sass mixins that are designed to be simple and easy to use. No configuration required. The mixins aim to be as vanilla as possible, meaning they should be as close to the original CSS syntax as possible.

EJS

EJS

It is a simple templating language that lets you generate HTML markup with plain JavaScript. No religiousness about how to organize things. No reinvention of iteration and control-flow. It's just plain JavaScript.

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