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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.
Pros of BrowserSync
Pros of Prepros
- Easy to use4
- Beautiful GUI4
- Easy to configure4
- FTP upload3
- Freemium2
- Live reload2
- Any editor OK2