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What is 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.
Sass is a tool in the CSS Pre-processors / Extensions category of a tech stack.
Sass is an open source tool with 14.8K GitHub stars and 2.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Sass's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Sass?

Companies
4006 companies reportedly use Sass in their tech stacks, including Airbnb, Robinhood, and StackShare.

Developers
35254 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Sass.

Sass Integrations

Compass, Ember-cli, SvelteKit, Bourbon, and node-sass are some of the popular tools that integrate with Sass. Here's a list of all 19 tools that integrate with Sass.
Pros of Sass
613
Variables
594
Mixins
466
Nested rules
410
Maintainable
300
Functions
149
Modular flexible code
143
Open source
112
Selector inheritance
107
Dynamic
96
Better than cs
5
Used by Bootstrap
3
If and for function
2
Better than less
1
Inheritance (@extend)
1
Custom functions
Decisions about Sass

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Sass in their tech stack.

aadam syed
react front-end developer at student · | 5 upvotes · 61.2K views
Needs advice
on
BootstrapBootstrapSassSass
and
Tailwind CSSTailwind CSS

Hi all,

I'm learning web development and wanted to know which front-end design frameworks should I use. Currently, I'm learning Bootstrap 5 and was wondering if I should stick with Bootstrap or shift to Sass or Tailwind CSS. Would love to get some advice on the advantages and disadvantages of these frameworks and which one should I stick with. Thanks in advance.

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Needs advice
on
ReactReactSvelteSvelte
and
Vue.jsVue.js

I know this is a fairly common question, but I feel like this stuff is pretty dynamic, and things fall in/out of fashion over time.

So here it is: I am an aspiring front-end web developer (eventually full stack, but focused on front-end for the time being). I feel pretty comfortable with HTML5, CSS/Sass, and I know enough JavaScript to get by.

I am an adult student doing the self-teaching route, and while my grasp on vanilla JS isn't stellar, I feel like it would be a good idea to start incorporating a framework into my learning. I just have no idea which to choose. To be honest, Svelte looks the best to me, BUT I am looking to be marketable in the future, so it's probably best to start with a more popular framework.

React seems to be the obvious answer popularity-wise, but I want to hear updated opinions from people in the field. While I haven't completely defined my focus, I like creating UI's and really have fun with CSS/Sass.

Thanks in advance, and I hope you're all having a great and safe weekend.

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awesomebanana2018
Needs advice
on
PostCSSPostCSSSassSass
and
StylusStylus

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

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Simon Reymann
Senior Fullstack Developer at QUANTUSflow Software GmbH · | 23 upvotes · 4.7M views

Our whole Vue.js frontend stack (incl. SSR) consists of the following tools:

  • Nuxt.js consisting of Vue CLI, Vue Router, vuex, Webpack and Sass (Bundler for HTML5, CSS 3), Babel (Transpiler for JavaScript),
  • Vue Styleguidist as our style guide and pool of developed Vue.js components
  • Vuetify as Material Component Framework (for fast app development)
  • TypeScript as programming language
  • Apollo / GraphQL (incl. GraphiQL) for data access layer (https://apollo.vuejs.org/)
  • ESLint, TSLint and Prettier for coding style and code analyzes
  • Jest as testing framework
  • Google Fonts and Font Awesome for typography and icon toolkit
  • NativeScript-Vue for mobile development

The main reason we have chosen Vue.js over React and AngularJS is related to the following artifacts:

  • Empowered HTML. Vue.js has many similar approaches with Angular. This helps to optimize HTML blocks handling with the use of different components.
  • Detailed documentation. Vue.js has very good documentation which can fasten learning curve for developers.
  • Adaptability. It provides a rapid switching period from other frameworks. It has similarities with Angular and React in terms of design and architecture.
  • Awesome integration. Vue.js can be used for both building single-page applications and more difficult web interfaces of apps. Smaller interactive parts can be easily integrated into the existing infrastructure with no negative effect on the entire system.
  • Large scaling. Vue.js can help to develop pretty large reusable templates.
  • Tiny size. Vue.js weights around 20KB keeping its speed and flexibility. It allows reaching much better performance in comparison to other frameworks.
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Sass Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Sass?
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.
styled-components
Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress 💅
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.
Bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
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.
See all alternatives

Sass's Followers
31025 developers follow Sass to keep up with related blogs and decisions.