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Autoprefixer vs Bourbon: What are the differences?
Developers describe Autoprefixer as "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. On the other hand, Bourbon is detailed as "A lightweight mixin library for Sass". 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.
Autoprefixer and Bourbon can be categorized as "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" tools.
Bourbon is an open source tool with 8.86K GitHub stars and 917 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Bourbon's open source repository on GitHub.
Helpful, Nexway, and nclud are some of the popular companies that use Bourbon, whereas Autoprefixer is used by Startae, Brigade, and Clippings. Bourbon has a broader approval, being mentioned in 31 company stacks & 84 developers stacks; compared to Autoprefixer, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.
Pros of Autoprefixer
Pros of Bourbon
- Simple mixins14
- Lightweight3
- No javascript3