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Bourbon vs PurifyCSS: What are the differences?

Bourbon: 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; PurifyCSS: Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps. Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps.

Bourbon and PurifyCSS can be categorized as "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" tools.

Bourbon and PurifyCSS are both open source tools. It seems that PurifyCSS with 9.11K GitHub stars and 383 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Bourbon with 8.86K GitHub stars and 916 GitHub forks.

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    What is 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.

    What is PurifyCSS?

    Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps.

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