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We've compiled a list of 4 free and paid alternatives to Sass. The primary competitors include Stylus, CSS. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Sass and PostCSS, LESS. Also you can look at other similar options here: Development Tools.


Stylus
Free Open Source

Expressive, dynamic, robust CSS.

CSS
Free Open Source

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g.

A tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript

LESS
Free Open Source

LESS extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions.

Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and...

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Sass Overview

Sass is a stylesheet language initially designed by Hampton Catlin and developed by Nathan Weizenbaum. After its initial versions, Nathan Weizenbaum and Chris Eppstein have continued to extend Sass with SassScript, a simple scripting language used in Sass files.Sass is a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) metalanguage. It is a scripting language that is interpreted into CSS. SassScript is the scripting language itself. Sass consists of two syntaxes. The original syntax, called "the indented syntax" uses a syntax similar to Haml. It uses indentation to separate code blocks and newline characters to separate rules. The newer syntax, "SCSS" uses block formatting like that of CSS. It uses braces to denote code blocks and semicolons to separate lines within a block. The indented syntax and SCSS files are traditionally given the extensions.sass and.scss respectively.CSS3 consists of a series of selectors and pseudo-selectors that group rules that apply to them. Sass (in the larger context of both syntaxes) extends CSS by providing several mechanisms available in more traditional programming languages, particularly object-oriented languages, but that are not available to CSS3 itself. When SassScript is interpreted, it creates blocks of CSS rules for various selectors as defined by the Sass file. The Sass interpreter translates SassScript into CSS. Alternately, Sass can monitor the.sass or.scss file and translate it to an output.css file whenever the.sass or.scss file is saved. Sass is simply syntactic sugar for CSS.

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