The dynamic stylesheet language.
This is the JavaScript, and now official, stable version of LESS.
For more information, visit http://lesscss.org.
See LICENSE file.
Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Alexis Sellier
Sass (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) is a mature, stable, and powerful professional grade CSS extension language. It provides similar features to Less, such as variables, mixins, and nested rules. Sass has two syntaxes: the original 'indent' syntax that is similar to Haml and the newer 'SCSS' that uses braces like CSS. It's one of the most popular CSS preprocessors.
Stylus is a preprocessor that offers a mix of features from both Sass and Less, as well as some additional unique features. It has a more flexible syntax that can be written with or without braces, colons, and semicolons. Stylus provides powerful and efficient stylesheet writing capabilities.
PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript plugins. These plugins can lint your CSS, support variables and mixins, transpile future CSS syntax, inline images, and more. PostCSS is different from preprocessors like Sass and Less in that it's modular and can be configured to perform a wide variety of tasks.
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The npm package less receives a total of 3,259,943 weekly downloads. As such, less popularity was classified as popular.
We found that less demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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