Compass vs Autoprefixer

Overview

Compass

Stacks352

Followers297

Votes12

GitHub Stars6.7K

Forks1.2K

Autoprefixer

Stacks3.8K

Followers54

Votes0

Autoprefixer vs Compass: What are the differences?

Autoprefixer: PostCSS plugin to parse CSS and add vendor prefixes to CSS rules. It is a CSS post processor. It combs through compiled CSS files to add or remove vendor prefixes like -webkit and -moz after checking the code; Compass: A Stylesheet Authoring Environment that makes your website design simpler to implement and easier to maintain. The compass core framework is a design-agnostic framework that provides common code that would otherwise be duplicated across other frameworks and extensions.

Autoprefixer and Compass can be primarily classified as "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" tools.

Compass is an open source tool with 6.91K GitHub stars and 1.23K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Compass's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Compass has a broader approval, being mentioned in 107 company stacks & 186 developers stacks; compared to Autoprefixer, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Compass	Autoprefixer
The compass core framework is a design-agnostic framework that provides common code that would otherwise be duplicated across other frameworks and extensions.	It is a CSS post processor. It combs through compiled CSS files to add or remove vendor prefixes like -webkit and -moz after checking the code.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 6.7K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 1.2K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 352	Stacks 3.8K
Followers 297	Followers 54
Votes 12	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 9 No vendor prefix CSS pain 1 Variables 1 Mixins 1 Compass sprites	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Sass	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Compass, Autoprefixer?

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

CSS Modules

It is a CSS file in which all class names and animation names are scoped locally by default. The key words here are scoped locally. With this, your CSS class names become similar to local variables in JavaScript. It goes into the compiler, and CSS comes out the other side.

astroturf

It lets you write CSS in your JavaScript files without adding any runtime layer, and with your existing CSS processing pipeline.

PreCSS

It combines Sass-like syntactical sugar — like variables, conditionals, and iterators — with emerging CSS features — like logical and custom properties, media query ranges, and image sets.

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.