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Less vs PurifyCSS: What are the differences?
What is Less? The dynamic stylesheet language. Less is a CSS pre-processor, meaning that it extends the CSS language, adding features that allow variables, mixins, functions and many other techniques that allow you to make CSS that is more maintainable, themable and extendable.
What is PurifyCSS? Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps. Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps.
Less and PurifyCSS can be categorized as "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" tools.
Less and PurifyCSS are both open source tools. It seems that Less with 16.1K GitHub stars and 3.45K forks on GitHub has more adoption than PurifyCSS with 9.11K GitHub stars and 383 GitHub forks.
JSS is makes a lot of sense when styling React components and styled-components is a really nice implementation of JSS. I still get to write pure CSS, but in a more componentized way. With CSS post-processors like SASS and LESS, you spend a lot of time deciding where your .scss or .less files belong, which classes should be shared, and generally fighting the component nature of React. With styled-components, you get the best of CSS and React. In this project, I have ZERO CSS files or global CSS classes and I leverage mixins quite a bit.
Pros of Less
- Better than css215
- Variables177
- Mixins141
- Maintainable99
- Used by bootstrap79
- Open source55
- Extendable50
- Functions43
- Dynamic39
- Fast30
- CSS is valid LESS, very easy to pick up2
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