CSS Modules vs Compass

Overview

Compass

Stacks352

Followers297

Votes12

GitHub Stars6.7K

Forks1.2K

CSS Modules

Stacks132

Followers161

Votes2

Compass vs CSS Modules: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is CSS Modules? A CSS file in which all class names and animation names are scoped locally by default. 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.

Compass and CSS Modules 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 CSS Modules, which is listed in 17 company stacks and 16 developer stacks.

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Detailed Comparison

Compass	CSS Modules
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 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.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 6.7K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 1.2K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 352	Stacks 132
Followers 297	Followers 161
Votes 12	Votes 2
Pros & Cons
Pros 9 No vendor prefix CSS pain 1 Variables 1 Mixins 1 Compass sprites	Pros 2 Static rather than compiled at runtime
Integrations
Sass	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Compass, CSS Modules?

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.

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.