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Autoprefixer vs Sass: What are the differences?
Autoprefixer: 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; Sass: Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets. 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.
Autoprefixer and Sass can be categorized as "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" tools.
Sass is an open source tool with 12K GitHub stars and 1.93K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Sass's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Sass has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2829 company stacks & 7659 developers stacks; compared to Autoprefixer, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 11 developer stacks.
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?
Pros of Autoprefixer
Pros of Sass
- Variables610
- Mixins593
- Nested rules467
- Maintainable410
- Functions299
- Modular flexible code149
- Open source143
- Selector inheritance112
- Dynamic107
- Better than cs96
- Used by Bootstrap5
- If and for function3
- Better than less2
- Custom functions1
- Inheritance (@extend)1
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Cons of Autoprefixer
Cons of Sass
- Needs to be compiled3