postcss-define-function VS css-houdini-drafts

Compare postcss-define-function vs css-houdini-drafts and see what are their differences.

postcss-define-function

PostCSS plugin for Sass-like function directive (by mcattx)
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postcss-define-function css-houdini-drafts
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postcss-define-function

Posts with mentions or reviews of postcss-define-function. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-30.
  • Vanilla+PostCSS as an Alternative to SCSS
    15 projects | dev.to | 30 Mar 2023
    User defined functions might become part of CSS one day, but currently there isn't even a working draft. So I would contradict my claim at least in this aspect, when I told you to use the PostCSS define-function plugin which mimics a subset of SCSS's function syntax.

css-houdini-drafts

Posts with mentions or reviews of css-houdini-drafts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-23.
  • Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout – WebKit
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2024
    I'm dubious that a constraints system would ever be considered, CSS has so far had some strong goals around it's predictably on layout cost.. that said, Houdini layout proposal is the closest to your comment, offloading layout to an isolated js context https://github.com/w3c/css-houdini-drafts/blob/main/css-layo... .. but honestly flex and grid, plus other things like containment have solved so many things for folks now that there's just far less demand for improvement than the days before flex
  • Vanilla+PostCSS as an Alternative to SCSS
    15 projects | dev.to | 30 Mar 2023
    We might think of mixins and SCSS functions as user-defined custom CSS functions functions. SCSS functions can take and process optional parameters and define complex output rules in their @return statements.
  • CSS Deep
    2090 projects | dev.to | 26 Feb 2021
    w3c/css-houdini-drafts - Mirror of https://hg.css-houdini.org/drafts

What are some alternatives?

When comparing postcss-define-function and css-houdini-drafts you can also consider the following projects:

postcss-extend-rule - Use the @extend at-rule and functional selectors in CSS

postcss-plugins - PostCSS Tools and Plugins

postcss-nested - PostCSS plugin to unwrap nested rules like how Sass does it.

postcss-preset-env - Convert modern CSS into something browsers understand

coffeescript - Unfancy JavaScript

cq-prolyfill - Prolyfill for CSS Container Queries

PageLoadingEffects - Modern ways of revealing new content using SVG animations.

colors - Smarter defaults for colors on the web.