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Compass

A Stylesheet Authoring Environment that makes your website design simpler to implement and easier to maintain
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What is Compass?

The compass core framework is a design-agnostic framework that provides common code that would otherwise be duplicated across other frameworks and extensions.
Compass is a tool in the CSS Pre-processors / Extensions category of a tech stack.
Compass is an open source tool with 6.7K GitHub stars and 1.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Compass's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Compass?

Companies
104 companies reportedly use Compass in their tech stacks, including Digital Services, Docplanner, and Weebly.

Developers
241 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Compass.

Compass Integrations

Pros of Compass
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No vendor prefix CSS pain
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Compass sprites

Compass Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Compass?
Cherokee
Cherokee is highly efficient, extremely lightweight and provides rock solid stability. Among its many features there is one that deserves special credit: a user friendly interface called cherokee-admin that is provided for a no-hassle configuration of every single feature of the server.
Protractor
Protractor is an end-to-end test framework for Angular and AngularJS applications. Protractor runs tests against your application running in a real browser, interacting with it as a user would.
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.
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.
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.
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