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Stacks20

Followers1

+ 1

Votes0

sass

Stacks110

Followers4

+ 1

Votes0

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sass vs less: What are the differences?

sass: Ruby Sass is deprecated! See https://sass-lang.com/ruby-sass for details. Ruby Sass is deprecated! See https://sass-lang.com/ruby-sass for details. Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS, 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; less: Invoke the Less CSS compiler from Ruby. Invoke the Less CSS compiler from Ruby.

sass and less can be primarily classified as "RubyGems Packages" tools.

sass and less are both open source tools. It seems that sass with 178 GitHub stars and 40 forks on GitHub has more adoption than less with 118 GitHub stars and 70 GitHub forks.

less Stats

Dependent Packages Counts - 105

sass Stats

Dependent Packages Counts - 1.2K

less Release info

Latest version

2.6.0

Apache-2.0

sass Release info

Latest version

3.7.4

MIT

What is less?

Invoke the Less CSS compiler from Ruby.

What is sass?

Ruby Sass is deprecated! See https://sass-lang.com/ruby-sass for details. Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS, 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.

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What are some alternatives to less and sass?

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

React

Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.

AngularJS

AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.

Vue.js

It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.

jQuery UI

Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.

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