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We used Less for a project, but ended up moving to Sass: http://sass-lang.com/ http://sass-lang.com/ The Sass compiler was (is?) more mature, and the language

by jomohke 16y ago

We used Less for a project, but ended up moving to Sass: http://sass-lang.com/ http://sass-lang.com/ The Sass compiler was (is?) more mature, and the language feels more consistent (see the '&' operator in Sass vs the :hover special case in Less). The editor/tool support was quite a bit better too. Sass doesn't have a javascript in-browser implementation (afaik), but for rapid development it can watch a folder/file for changes and automatically recompile to static CSS files. Plus there's a firebug plugin, so you get Sass line numbers / references instead of compiled CSS line numbers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/103988/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/103988/

perlpimp 16y ago
There is sass in node.js/express framework. cant see why it cant ne adjusted to be use client side.
- nex3 16y ago
  Unfortunately, sass.js is pretty incomplete and has no support for SCSS.
rapind 16y ago
Interesting. I tried both and now use LESS with the More plugin in my rails app. I'm a huge fan of HAML, but I haven't fallen in love with SASS yet. The big upside to LESS is it still looks like CSS. Compass is interesting though, from the SASS side. http://github.com/chriseppstein/compass http://github.com/chriseppstein/compass
- jomohke 16y ago
  The latest version of Sass (3.0) has CSS syntax: The compiler supports both variants - the file extension (.scss vs .sass) denotes which you want to use. See the examples on their front page: http://sass-lang.com http://sass-lang.com They have a command line tool "sass-convert", which can convert between the syntaxes (and from Less)
  - rapind 16y ago
    Thanks for pointing that out. I'll give it another go.
unfletch 16y ago
FYI, Less.js isn't just a javascript port. It adds new features, and the "&" selector is among them. That said, I agree that SASS is more mature. I've used each on at least two projects now, and, with the release of SASS 3.0's and SCSS, I'm committing to SASS. This client-side parsing is a cool trick, but it's easy to do my CSS generation at the same time as my javascript minification. I just don't need it.

by jomohke 16y ago

perlpimp 16y ago

There is sass in node.js/express framework. cant see why it cant ne adjusted to be use client side.

nex3 16y ago
Unfortunately, sass.js is pretty incomplete and has no support for SCSS.

rapind 16y ago

Interesting. I tried both and now use LESS with the More plugin in my rails app. I'm a huge fan of HAML, but I haven't fallen in love with SASS yet. The big upside to LESS is it still looks like CSS. Compass is interesting though, from the SASS side. http://github.com/chriseppstein/compass http://github.com/chriseppstein/compass

jomohke 16y ago
The latest version of Sass (3.0) has CSS syntax: The compiler supports both variants - the file extension (.scss vs .sass) denotes which you want to use. See the examples on their front page: http://sass-lang.com http://sass-lang.com They have a command line tool "sass-convert", which can convert between the syntaxes (and from Less)
- rapind 16y ago
  Thanks for pointing that out. I'll give it another go.

unfletch 16y ago

FYI, Less.js isn't just a javascript port. It adds new features, and the "&" selector is among them. That said, I agree that SASS is more mature. I've used each on at least two projects now, and, with the release of SASS 3.0's and SCSS, I'm committing to SASS. This client-side parsing is a cool trick, but it's easy to do my CSS generation at the same time as my javascript minification. I just don't need it.