CSS preprocessors comparison

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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) pre-processors help you to maintain your CSS files more easily. It can help you make your CSS more readable, maintainable by using some features not available in the CSS language.

Variables allow to easily reuse the same value in your CSS, making it easier to read or update.

Mixins allow embedding all the properties of a class into another class.

Nesting allow to have a more concise code, which mimics the structure of your HTML..

Get image dimensions allow to set properties using the size of a given image ensuring your CSS is adapted if the image is changed.

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Link	Less	Sass (SCSS syntax)	Stylus
Webseite	lesscss.org	sass-lang.com	github.io/...
Latest version	2.5.3	3.4.19	0.52.4
Veröffentlichungsdatum	2015-09-25	2015-10-10	2015-09-04
Development language	Javascript	Ruby	Javascript
Eigenschaften
Variables	Ja	Ja	Ja
Mixins	Ja	Ja	Ja
Conditionals	-	Ja	Ja
Get image dimensions	Ja	-	Ja
Color manipulation	Ja	Ja	Ja
Dark/light color detection	-	-	Ja
Nesting	Ja	Ja	Ja
Additional
Syntax sample	@mycolor: black; #header { color: @mycolor; .navigation { font-size: 12px; } .logo { width: 300px; } }	SCSS syntax: $mycolor:black; #header { color: $mycolor; .navigation { font-size: 12px; } .logo { width: 300px; } }	mycolor=black #header { color: mycolor; .navigation font-size: 12px; .logo width: 300px; }
Aktualisieren	2015-11-12 23:18:34	2015-11-12 23:18:34	2015-11-12 23:24:46

CSS preprocessors comparison

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