Less VS Bourbon

Compare Less vs Bourbon and see what are their differences.

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Less Bourbon
2 3
121 9,099
- 0.0%
0.0 4.0
about 7 years ago about 1 month ago
Ruby Ruby
- MIT License
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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:

Bourbon

Posts with mentions or reviews of Bourbon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-03.
  • Show HN: Atlassian Design for Bootstrap v5
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Oct 2023
    It’s in the src/scss directory but they’re not using that much except overriding bootstrap which has its own.

    You might find bourbon more useful.

    https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tree/main/scss

    https://www.bourbon.io

  • Show HN: Flowbite – Tailwind CSS Components Library [MIT License]
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Sep 2021
    Tailwind is written in SASS and is not like SASS. I would equate Tailwind to an earlier utility framework like Bourbone[1].

    Tailwind can be used to build/write "StyledComponents". And one can write in the style/methodology/philosophy of BEM.

    All the the above terms are all of different categories.

    1. https://www.bourbon.io

  • CSS Deep
    2090 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2021
    thoughtbot/bourbon - A lightweight Sass tool set.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Compass - Compass is no longer actively maintained.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.

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

Sass - Sass makes CSS fun!

Quiet Assets

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

Autoprefixer - Autoprefixer for Ruby and Ruby on Rails

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

Gutenberg - Modern framework to print the web correctly.