Autoprefixer vs Less

Autoprefixer

Autoprefixer for Ruby and Ruby on Rails (by ai)

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Less

Leaner CSS, in your browser or Ruby (via less.js). (by cowboyd)

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Autoprefixer		Less
	Project
0	Mentions	2
1,214	Stars	121
-	Growth	-
4.7	Activity	0.0
2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 7 years ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Autoprefixer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Autoprefixer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Autoprefixer yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Less

Posts with mentions or reviews of Less. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-26.

CSS Deep
2090 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2021

mrkrupski/LESS-Dynamic-Stylesheet - A set of useful mixins for LESS, the CSS pre-processor: http://lesscss.org
Setting Up a JavaScript Build Process using Rollup
8 projects | dev.to | 17 Feb 2021

Now that we have addressed our scripts, we can focus on our styles. In this setup, we will look at the CSS preprocessor Less which lets us write CSS simpler, use variables and mixins. We can add it to the project with the following command:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Autoprefixer and Less you can also consider the following projects:

rollup-plugin-postcss - Seamless integration between Rollup and PostCSS.

Webpacker - Use Webpack to manage app-like JavaScript modules in Rails

Sass - Sass makes CSS fun!

Less Rails - :-1: :train: Less.js For Rails

Compass - Compass is no longer actively maintained. Compass is a Stylesheet Authoring Environment that makes your website design simpler to implement and easier to maintain.

Bourbon - A Lightweight Sass Tool Set

bower-rails - Bundler-like DSL + rake tasks for Bower on Rails

Quiet Assets

Gutenberg - Modern framework to print the web correctly.

Emoji - A gem. For Emoji. For everyone. ❤