BrowserSync vs Prepros

Overview

BrowserSync

Stacks127

Followers140

Votes0

GitHub Stars12.3K

Forks754

Prepros

Stacks23

Followers39

Votes21

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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Detailed Comparison

BrowserSync	Prepros
BrowserSync makes your tweaking and testing faster by synchronising file changes and interactions across multiple devices. It’s wicked-fast and totally free.	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.
Interaction sync;File sync;URL history;Remote inspector;UI or CLI control;Build-tool compatible;URL tunneling;Free to run and reuse	Find Out Errors At a Glance; Live Reload; Minify & Optimize; Network Preview; Browser Sync
Statistics
GitHub Stars 12.3K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 754	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 127	Stacks 23
Followers 140	Followers 39
Votes 0	Votes 21
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet	Pros 4 Easy to configure 4 Beautiful GUI 4 Easy to use 3 FTP upload 2 Any editor OK
Integrations
Grunt gulp	Windows Linux CoffeeScript Slim Less Pug Markdown Stylus macOS Jade Language

What are some alternatives to BrowserSync, Prepros?

CodeKit

Process Less, Sass, Stylus, Jade, Haml, Slim, CoffeeScript, Javascript, and Compass files automatically each time you save. Easily set options for each language.

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.

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