recess vs Less

recess

A simple and attractive code quality tool for CSS built on top of LESS (by twitter)

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Less

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

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recess		Less
	Project
1	Mentions	2
2,214	Stars	121
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
about 8 years ago	Latest Commit	about 7 years ago
CSS	Language	Ruby
Apache License 2.0	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.

recess

Posts with mentions or reviews of recess. 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

twitter/recess - A simple and attractive code quality tool for CSS built on top of LESS

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 recess and Less you can also consider the following projects:

Compass - Compass is no longer actively maintained.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.

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

SpinKit - A collection of loading indicators animated with CSS

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

chardin.js - Simple overlay instructions for your apps.

Quiet Assets

pnotify - Beautiful JavaScript notifications with Web Notifications support.

Sass - Sass makes CSS fun!

Sequence - The responsive CSS animation framework for creating unique sliders, presentations, banners, and other step-based applications.

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

card - :credit_card: make your credit card form better in one line of code

Gutenberg - Modern framework to print the web correctly.