Compass VS Less

Compare Compass vs Less and see what are their differences.

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Compass is no longer actively maintained.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. (by Compass)

Less

Leaner CSS, in your browser or Ruby (via less.js). (by cowboyd)
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Compass Less
5 2
6,734 121
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0.0 0.0
about 1 year ago about 7 years ago
CSS Ruby
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later -
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Compass

Posts with mentions or reviews of Compass. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-11.
  • Is Compass gone?
    1 project | /r/css | 13 Nov 2022
    pretty much gone, the beta site seems still to be alive http://beta.compass-style.org/reference/compass/css3/ and the github repo is still about https://github.com/Compass/compass/
  • SCSS: Started with static website
    1 project | dev.to | 18 Jun 2022
    SASS is a CSS preprocessor that is designed to be used as a standalone preprocessor, or as part of a framework called Compass. SASS for CSS is very similar to CSS, for creating CSS files that are more easily readable and maintainable than traditional CSS files. In the next chapper, we will learn how to use SASS to create a simple CSS file.
  • SSGs through the ages: The ‘After Jekyll’ era
    8 projects | dev.to | 11 Feb 2022
    Soon after, Chris Epstein, the creator of Compass and co-creator of Sass, forked Brandon’s repository and asked for some help with the design. Being a big fan of Chris’s, Brandon jumped on the opportunity straight away. He pulled out the content, made the theme more generic, and named his creation Octopress.
  • How to use scss in drupal theme?
    2 projects | /r/drupal | 19 Nov 2021
    I use a CLI tool to compile it as changes are made. I use http://compass-style.org/
  • CSS Deep
    2090 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2021
    Compass/compass - Compass is a Stylesheet Authoring Environment that makes your website design simpler to implement and easier to maintain.

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 Compass and Less you can also consider the following projects:

Sass - Sass makes CSS fun!

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

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

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

Bourbon - A Lightweight Sass Tool Set

Quiet Assets

Autoprefixer - Autoprefixer for Ruby and Ruby on Rails

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

Gutenberg - Modern framework to print the web correctly.                                               

hackathon-starter - A boilerplate for Node.js web applications