What is Stylus?
Stylus is a revolutionary new language, providing an efficient, dynamic, and expressive way to generate CSS. Supporting both an indented syntax and regular CSS style.
Stylus is a tool in the CSS Pre-processors / Extensions category of a tech stack.
Stylus is an open source tool with 11.2K GitHub stars and 1.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Stylus's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Stylus?
Companies
99 companies reportedly use Stylus in their tech stacks, including Discord, Accenture, and Coursera.
Developers
305 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Stylus.
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Decisions about Stylus
Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Stylus in their tech stack.
awesomebanana2018
CEO at ME! · | 5 upvotes · 534.2K views
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?
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Stylus Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Stylus?
Sass
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.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
