tape VS PostCSS

Compare tape vs PostCSS and see what are their differences.

tape

tap-producing test harness for node and browsers (by tape-testing)
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tape PostCSS
17 86
5,757 28,192
0.1% 0.4%
8.5 8.8
about 1 month ago 6 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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tape

Posts with mentions or reviews of tape. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-07.
  • Having deps is a good thing, and disk space is infinite and free
    1 project | /r/programmingcirclejerk | 18 May 2023
  • Express API Testing
    14 projects | /r/node | 7 Mar 2023
    Last but not least important are ava, uvu and tape; they are a really light and fast test runners.
  • Unit testing: What to use, and how?
    5 projects | /r/node | 13 Feb 2023
    A more minimalist approach is this tape module and the TAP protocol. https://www.npmjs.com/package/tape
  • Straight talk: Salary discussion thread
    2 projects | /r/Thailand | 18 Dec 2022
    OK will do. Do you have any tips on finding a suitable project? Ideally I was hoping to to contribute to a piece of software that I actually use/know/like/want to improve. Given that, and my area of expertise, I had shortlisted Signal Desktop, and Tape.
  • Find component by display name when the component is stateless functional, with Enzyme
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 2 Apr 2022
    Reactjs I have the following components: // Hello.jsexport default (React) => ({name}) => { return ( Hello {name ? name : 'Stranger'}! )}// App.jsimport createHello from './Hello'export default (React) => () => { const Hello = createHello(React) const helloProps = { name: 'Jane' } return ( )}// index.jsimport React from 'react'import { render } from 'react-dom'import createApp from './App'const App = createApp(React)render( , document.getElementById('app')) And I want to set up a test to see if the App component contains one Hello component. I tried the following, using Tape and Enzyme: import createApp from './App'import React from 'react'import test from 'tape'import { shallow } from 'enzyme'test('App component test', (assert) => { const App = createApp(React) const wrapper = shallow() assert.equal(wrapper.find('Hello').length === 1, true)}) But the result was that the length property of the find result was equal to 0, when I was expecting it to be equal to 1. So, how do I find my Hello component? Answer link : https://codehunter.cc/a/reactjs/find-component-by-display-name-when-the-component-is-stateless-functional-with-enzyme
  • Nobody at Facebook has worked on Jest for years
    3 projects | /r/javascript | 2 Feb 2022
  • Tools for testing Functional Web Apps
    3 projects | dev.to | 20 Dec 2021
    For us at Begin and Architect, tape has been in use for several years. tape has a stable and straightforward API, routine maintenance updates, and outputs TAP, making it really versatile. While TAP is legible, it's not the most human-readable format. Fortunately, several TAP reporters can help display results for developers. Until recently, Begin's TAP reporter of choice was tap-spec. Sadly tap-spec wasn't kept up to date and npm began reporting vulnerabilities.
  • Chaijs.com just let their domain expire
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Dec 2021
    I really enjoy Ava [1] or anything assert-tape-like [2]. "uvu" [3] is getting a lot of love lately, but it's very feature limited and much of it's touted advantages are at the detriment to feature set.

    [1] https://github.com/avajs/ava

    [2] https://github.com/substack/tape

    [3] https://github.com/lukeed/uvu

    Jest is great for front-end (or full stack integration) testing, but I feel it's specialized for that use-case and doesn't always play nice with backend/middle-tier testing needs.

  • Advanced Roadmap for React.js developers
    20 projects | dev.to | 25 Nov 2021
    -Jest -React testing library -Enzyme -Sinon -Mocha -Chai -AVA -Tape
  • The React roadmap for beginners you never knew you needed.
    42 projects | dev.to | 23 Nov 2021
    Tape

PostCSS

Posts with mentions or reviews of PostCSS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-11.
  • PostCSS - my initial experience
    3 projects | dev.to | 11 Jan 2024
    the plugins in the official PostCSS website were old like IE6 or the marquee tag, and
  • Dark Mode with SvelteKit, a Blog Post
    3 projects | /r/sveltejs | 15 Nov 2023
    Hello internet. I just published a new blog post on how to implement dark mode with SvelteKit, optionally with PostCSS and TailwindCSS:
  • 11 Ways to Optimize Your Website
    12 projects | dev.to | 12 Nov 2023
    There are many frontend tools available for this purpose. For example, PostCSS is a popular CSS processor that can combine and minimize your code. With the right plugin, it can even fix your code for compatibility issues, making sure your CSS styles work for all browsers.
  • Styling React 2023 edition
    11 projects | dev.to | 3 Nov 2023
    I use PostCSS to extend CSS’s features and to add a few things that make writing styles a little more convenient, but it could easily be swapped for another preprocessor like Sass or vanilla CSS. It’s up to you. You can view my PostCSS config here.
  • Abstract Syntax Trees and Practical Applications in JavaScript
    13 projects | dev.to | 21 Oct 2023
    Code transpilation isn't specific to JavaScript, You can also add a level of transformation to your CSS source using tools like post-css. Most languages with a fairly mature ecosystem will probably have some tools to help with code transformation.
  • Native CSS nesting now supported by all major browsers!
    1 project | dev.to | 29 Aug 2023
    In large projects, it is still a good idea to use PostCSS, which will translate new CSS features to something that browsers understand today.
  • Unicode-range CSS is working wrong in Safari browser?
    1 project | /r/reactjs | 27 Aug 2023
  • Let's Make Learning Frontend Great Again!
    11 projects | dev.to | 22 Aug 2023
    LiveCodes provides many of the commonly used developer tools. These include Monaco editor (that powers VS Code), Prettier, Emmet, Vim/Emacs modes, Babel, TypeScript, SCSS, Less, PostCSS, Jest and Testing Library, among others. All these tools run seamlessly in the browser without any installations or configurations. It feels like a very light-weight version of your own local development environment including the keyboard shortcuts, IntelliSense and code navigation features.
  • How to setup a simple static website using Svelte (with login)
    5 projects | dev.to | 19 May 2023
    Usually, one of the first things I do on creating a new web app is to throw a UI library in to help style components. There are several UI libraries that can be used by Svelte, but in this case I went with daisyUI because it's a fairly popular UI library which includes tailwind. To install daisyUI, you first need to install tailwind. There's a few different ways to do this (such as this guide), but the easiest way I've found is the following command, which also adds PostCSS and AutoPrefixer:
  • Vanilla+PostCSS as an Alternative to SCSS
    15 projects | dev.to | 30 Mar 2023
    Vanilla CSS has taken a similar path with ambitious working drafts, better browser support, and PostCSS to fill the gap for user agents lagging behind. So why is Sass/SCSS still so popular? Maybe we go so used to it that we might have forgotten what problems it was meant to solve in the first place.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tape and PostCSS you can also consider the following projects:

jest - Delightful JavaScript Testing.

styled-components - Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress 💅

tap - Test Anything Protocol tools for node

emotion - 👩‍🎤 CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition

ava - Node.js test runner that lets you develop with confidence 🚀

esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web

mocha - ☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser

Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

hyperapp - 1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications

purgecss - Remove unused CSS

AVA

JSS - JSS is an authoring tool for CSS which uses JavaScript as a host language.