PostCSS vs Sass: What are the differences?
PostCSS: Transform CSS with JS plugins. PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JS plugins. These plugins can support variables and mixins, transpile future CSS syntax, inline images, and more; Sass: Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets. Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It's translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.
PostCSS and Sass can be categorized as "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" tools.
"The "babel" of CSS" is the primary reason why developers consider PostCSS over the competitors, whereas "Variables" was stated as the key factor in picking Sass.
PostCSS and Sass are both open source tools. PostCSS with 21K GitHub stars and 1.15K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Sass with 12K GitHub stars and 1.93K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Sass has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2082 company stacks & 1445 developers stacks; compared to PostCSS, which is listed in 62 company stacks and 47 developer stacks.
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