Bourbon is a library of pure sass mixins that are designed to be simple and easy to use. No configuration required. The mixins aim to be as vanilla as possible, meaning they should be as close to the original CSS syntax as possible.
Bourbon is a tool in the Templating Languages & Extensions category of a tech stack.
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Sass, CodeKit are some of the popular tools that integrate with Bourbon. Here's a list of all 2 tools that integrate with Bourbon.