18 Alternatives to Using Tailwind CSS: Do You Really Need It?

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  • oocss

    Object Oriented CSS Framework

    ✨ BEM 💥 Object Oriented CSS 🌟 Atomic CSS

  • less.js

    Less. The dynamic stylesheet language.

    ✨ LESS 💥 PostCSS 🌟 Sass ☄️ stylis.js 🚀 stylus

  • Appwrite

    Appwrite - The Open Source Firebase alternative introduces iOS support . Appwrite is an open source backend server that helps you build native iOS applications much faster with realtime APIs for authentication, databases, files storage, cloud functions and much more!

  • tachyons

    Functional css for humans

    Tachyons 💥 Shed.css 🌟 Basscss ☄️ Expressive CSS

  • stylus

    Expressive, robust, feature-rich CSS language built for nodejs

    ✨ LESS 💥 PostCSS 🌟 Sass ☄️ stylis.js 🚀 stylus

  • PostCSS

    Transforming styles with JS plugins

    ✨ LESS 💥 PostCSS 🌟 Sass ☄️ stylis.js 🚀 stylus

  • Sass

    Sass makes CSS fun!

    ✨ LESS 💥 PostCSS 🌟 Sass ☄️ stylis.js 🚀 stylus

  • stylelint

    A mighty CSS linter that helps you avoid errors and enforce conventions.

    Stylelint 💥 cssnano

  • Sonar

    Write Clean JavaScript Code. Always.. Sonar helps you commit clean code every time. With over 300 unique rules to find JavaScript bugs, code smells & vulnerabilities, Sonar finds the issues while you focus on the work.

  • stylis

    light – weight css preprocessor

    ✨ LESS 💥 PostCSS 🌟 Sass ☄️ stylis.js 🚀 stylus

  • cssnano

    A modular minifier, built on top of the PostCSS ecosystem.

    ✨ Stylelint 💥 cssnano

  • basscss

    Low-level CSS Toolkit – the original Functional/Utility/Atomic CSS library

    ✨ Tachyons 💥 Shed.css 🌟 Basscss ☄️ Expressive CSS

  • css-loader

    CSS Loader

    ✨ css loader 💥 jss 🌟 csjs ☄️ aphrodite

  • JSS

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

    ✨ css loader 💥 jss 🌟 csjs ☄️ aphrodite

  • csjs

    :sparkles: Modular, scoped CSS with ES6

    ✨ css loader 💥 jss 🌟 csjs ☄️ aphrodite

  • Aphrodite

    Framework-agnostic CSS-in-JS with support for server-side rendering, browser prefixing, and minimum CSS generation

    ✨ css loader 💥 jss 🌟 csjs ☄️ aphrodite

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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