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PurifyCSS vs Sass: What are the differences?
Developers describe PurifyCSS as "Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps". Remove unused CSS. Also works with single-page apps. On the other hand, Sass is detailed as "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.
PurifyCSS and Sass belong to "CSS Pre-processors / Extensions" category of the tech stack.
PurifyCSS and Sass are both open source tools. Sass with 12K GitHub stars and 1.93K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than PurifyCSS with 9.11K GitHub stars and 383 GitHub forks.
Originally, I was going to start using Sass with Parcel, but then I learned about Stylus, which looked interesting because it can get the property values of something directly instead of through variables, and PostCSS, which looked interesting because you can customize your Pre/Post-processing. Which tool would you recommend?
We know that Sass is not a replace for CSS, but in my mind there is no CSS with no Sass.
One of the first complement/plugins I add to the environment, are the Sass processing files/demons.
I couldn't imagine going back to pure CSS. Sass is even the way to go, regarding Styled Components, CSS Modules, and all the other options.
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 PurifyCSS
Pros of Sass
- Variables613
- Mixins593
- Nested rules466
- Maintainable410
- Functions299
- Modular flexible code149
- Open source143
- Selector inheritance112
- Dynamic107
- Better than cs96
- Used by Bootstrap5
- If and for function3
- Better than less2
- Inheritance (@extend)1
- Custom functions1
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Cons of PurifyCSS
Cons of Sass
- Needs to be compiled6
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