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BrowserSync vs Prepros: What are the differences?

What is BrowserSync? Reload all your browsers, every time you hit save. BrowserSync makes your tweaking and testing faster by synchronising file changes and interactions across multiple devices. It’s wicked-fast and totally free.

What is Prepros? Compile Sass, Less, Stylus, Jade, CoffeeScript on Mac, Windows & Linux with Live Browser Reload. It is an interface tool which handles pre-processing, and other front-end tasks. Its greatest strength is the incredible ease with which it allows you to use pre-processors of various kinds, be they for CSS, HTML or JavaScript.

BrowserSync and Prepros can be primarily classified as "Live Reloading" tools.

Some of the features offered by BrowserSync are:

  • Interaction sync
  • File sync
  • URL history

On the other hand, Prepros provides the following key features:

  • Find Out Errors At a Glance
  • Live Reload
  • Minify & Optimize

BrowserSync is an open source tool with 10.8K GitHub stars and 692 GitHub forks. Here's a link to BrowserSync's open source repository on GitHub.

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    What is BrowserSync?

    BrowserSync makes your tweaking and testing faster by synchronising file changes and interactions across multiple devices. It’s wicked-fast and totally free.

    What is Prepros?

    It is an interface tool which handles pre-processing, and other front-end tasks. Its greatest strength is the incredible ease with which it allows you to use pre-processors of various kinds, be they for CSS, HTML or JavaScript.

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    What are some alternatives to BrowserSync and Prepros?
    Webpack
    A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows to load parts for the application on demand. Through "loaders" modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
    Browserify
    Browserify lets you require('modules') in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies.
    LiveReload
    LiveReload monitors changes in the file system. As soon as you save a file, it is preprocessed as needed, and the browser is refreshed.
    Ghostlab
    It is a Mac based app that allows you to test out your responsive design across a variety of devices and browsers
    CodeKit
    Process Less, Sass, Stylus, Jade, Haml, Slim, CoffeeScript, Javascript, and Compass files automatically each time you save. Easily set options for each language.
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