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Followers115

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Followers411

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Bourbon vs Stylus: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Stylus? Expressive, robust, feature-rich CSS language built for nodejs. 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.

Bourbon and Stylus can be primarily classified as "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" tools.

"Simple mixins" is the top reason why over 13 developers like Bourbon, while over 65 developers mention "Simple" as the leading cause for choosing Stylus.

Bourbon is an open source tool with 8.86K GitHub stars and 916 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Bourbon's open source repository on GitHub.

Coursera, Clay.io, and Cofounders Pte Ltd are some of the popular companies that use Stylus, whereas Bourbon is used by DeveloperTown, Helpful, and devbase.io. Stylus has a broader approval, being mentioned in 69 company stacks & 45 developers stacks; compared to Bourbon, which is listed in 25 company stacks and 12 developer stacks.

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awesomebanana2018

CEO at ME! · Jun 17, 2020 | 5 upvotes · 545.2K views

Needs advice

PostCSS

Sass

and

Stylus

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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Andrii Kirmas

Mar 29, 2021 | 2 upvotes · 120.4K views

Recommends

PostCSS

You're not correct with saying "vs Postcss". You're using Less/Sass/Stylus/... to produce "CSS" (maybe extended means it has some future features) and then in any case PostCSS will play (it is shipped with Parcel/NextJS/CRA/...)

Enyo Onuche

Jan 19, 2023 | 1 upvotes · 35K views

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Pros of Bourbon

Pros of Stylus

14
Simple mixins
3
Lightweight
3
No javascript

69
Simple
54
Indented syntax
38
Efficient
33
Built for node.js
32
Open source
24
Expressive
21
Maintainable
17
Feature-rich
13
Better than CS
6
Variables
5
Functions
3
@extend directive
2
Contempt for curly brackets
2
Very clean
2
Mixins
2
Is Easy
2
No colons, semi-colons or even curly braces
1
Its unique
1
Dynamic selectors
1
Scriptable
1
Easy Efficiently
1
Transparent
1
Supports orthogonal architecture

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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 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.

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