What is node-sass?
It is a library that provides binding for Node.js to LibSass, the C version of the popular stylesheet preprocessor, Sass.
It allows you to natively compile .scss files to css at incredible speed and automatically via a connect middleware.
node-sass is a tool in the CSS Pre-processors / Extensions category of a tech stack.
node-sass is an open source tool with 8.5K GitHub stars and 1.3K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to node-sass's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses node-sass?
Companies
16 companies reportedly use node-sass in their tech stacks, including Jounce, HHEY, and checkmk.
Developers
71 developers on StackShare have stated that they use node-sass.
node-sass's Features
- Natively compile .scss files to css
- Binding for Node.js to LibSass
node-sass Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to node-sass?
Sass
Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It's translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.
Webpack
A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows to load parts for the application on demand. Through "loaders" modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
PostCSS
PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JS plugins. These plugins can support variables and mixins, transpile future CSS syntax, inline images, and more.
Compass
The compass core framework is a design-agnostic framework that provides common code that would otherwise be duplicated across other frameworks and extensions.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
