Picnic CSS VS Compass

Compare Picnic CSS vs Compass and see what are their differences.

Picnic CSS

:handbag: A beautiful CSS library to kickstart your projects (by franciscop)

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Compass is no longer actively maintained.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)
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Picnic CSS Compass
8 5
3,770 6,734
- -0.1%
1.9 0.0
9 months ago 12 months ago
CSS CSS
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Picnic CSS

Posts with mentions or reviews of Picnic CSS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-03.
  • Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
    62 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2023
    This was about 10 years ago, where there was Bootstrap, Pure CSS and little more, so I published:

    https://picnicss.com/

    It went to the front page of Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315616). At the time I was a student in Spain doing coding just for fun, so any job-related opportunity would be slim and with really bad pay (I had actually already worked a bit as a dev for a pittance).

    Someone contacted me and offered some really fun freelancing projects for what at the time seemed like an absurdly ridiculous large amount of money, so much that I got a great designer friend involved and split the money so the project would be even better.

    I learned many things from that and as my curiosity pumped me to keep learning. I read about cases of people making 500k+/year as "normal" devs (meaning, not managers, and also not famous). Most of my Spanish peers didn't even believe that existed at the time, and thought I was crazy believing those "obviously fake" blog posts. But I've been working for USA companies basically since then, and couldn't be happier/wouldn't look back.

  • Picnic CSS – A beautiful CSS library to kickstart your projects
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Sep 2023
  • CSS Only Navigation tutorial
    1 project | /r/web_design | 25 Jun 2023
  • Show HN: Neat, the Minimalist CSS Framework
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2023
    Picnic CSS:

    https://picnicss.com/

    My own and one of the older ones, almost 10 years ago, see the original Show HN:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8315616

  • v8.0.2 is live!
    5 projects | /r/nuken | 23 Aug 2022
    Added support for Picnic CSS
  • 🚀20 Best CSS3 Library For Developers.
    11 projects | dev.to | 26 Jul 2021
    2. Picnic.css
  • CSS Deep
    2090 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2021
    franciscop/picnic - 👜 A beautiful CSS library to kickstart your projects
  • Open-source, not open-contribution
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jan 2021
    I've disabled Issues in some of my more popular but end-user libraries and I couldn't be happier. Specially notorious was a CSS library[1] where many of the issues were on the level of "hey can you give me the code for X" or "how do you do X" where X was a general CSS question and not related to the library at all. I've received a bit of hate when I closed some of my repos issues as a PR [2][3]:

    > If you spot a bug or any other issue you may go to hell because this software is officially Bug Free(TM).

    > part of offering these to the public through open software is maintaining them and allowing feedback from users.

    > It seems umbrella.js project suffers the same desease.

    I've noticed there was a strong push around 2016-2018 to recommend newbie programmers NOT to go to Stackoverflow, but instead to ask the questions straight in the Github issues. Turns out, the problem was low quality questions and not the medium at all, and that just converted an issue that StackOverflow had solved long ago into burnout for open source developers on Github.

    There's so many entitled developers out there that will come and demand changes. Github needs to step up their game and give authors more powerful tools. It might make new devs feel less welcome, but the balance is tipped way too much to allow anyone to create massive spam for projects right now.

    [1] https://picnicss.com/

    [2] https://github.com/franciscop/picnic/pull/203/files

    [3] https://github.com/franciscop/picnic/pull/202

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Picnic CSS and Compass you can also consider the following projects:

Milligram - A minimalist CSS framework.

Sass - Sass makes CSS fun!

UI kit - A lightweight and modular front-end framework for developing fast and powerful web interfaces

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

Primer - The CSS design system that powers GitHub

Bourbon - A Lightweight Sass Tool Set

Bootstrap - The most popular HTML, CSS, and JavaScript framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

Autoprefixer - Autoprefixer for Ruby and Ruby on Rails

fancyInput - Makes typing in input fields fun with CSS3 effects

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

humane-js - A simple, modern, browser notification system

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