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Animate.css vs Compass: What are the differences?
What is Animate.css ? A library of CSS animations. 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.
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.
Animate.css and Compass can be primarily classified as "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" tools.
Animate.css and Compass are both open source tools. Animate.css with 61.2K GitHub stars and 13K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Compass with 6.91K GitHub stars and 1.23K GitHub forks.
Pros of Animate.css
Pros of Compass
- No vendor prefix CSS pain9
- Mixins1
- Variables1
- Compass sprites1