docpad - Empower your website frontends with layouts, meta-data, pre-processors (markdown, jade, coffeescript, etc

•    CoffeeScript

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Hi! I'm DocPad, I streamline the web development process and help close the gap between experts and beginners. I've been used in production by big and small companies for over a year and a half now to create plenty of amazing and powerful web sites and applications quicker than ever before. What makes me different is instead of being a box to cram yourself into and hold you back, I'm a freeway to what you want to accomplish, just getting out of your way and allowing you to create stuff quicker than ever before without limits. Leave the redundant stuff up to me, so you can focus on the awesome stuff.Discover my features below, or skip ahead to the installation instructions to get started with a fully functional pre-made website in a few minutes from reading this.

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postcss - Transforming styles with JS plugins

•    Javascript

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PostCSS is a tool for transforming styles with JS plugins. These plugins can lint your CSS, support variables and mixins, transpile future CSS syntax, inline images, and more.PostCSS is used by industry leaders including Wikipedia, Twitter, Alibaba, and JetBrains. The Autoprefixer PostCSS plugin is one of the most popular CSS processors.

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absurd - A JavaScript library with superpowers

•    Javascript

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Javascript based preprocessor. No new language, no new syntax. Write everything in plain JavaScript.

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grunt-contrib-sass - Compile Sass to CSS.

•    Javascript

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Run this task with the grunt sass command. Sass is a preprocessor that adds nested rules, variables, mixins and functions, selector inheritance, and more to CSS. Sass files compile into well-formatted, standard CSS to use in your site or application.

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elm-css - Typed CSS in Elm.

•    Elm

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See the Css module documentation for an explanation of how this code works.

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stylable - Stylable - CSS for components

•    TypeScript

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Stylable enables you to write reusable, highly-performant components. Each component exposes a style API that maps its internal parts so you can reuse components across teams without sacrificing stylability. At build time, the preprocessor converts the Stylable CSS into a minimal, flat, static, valid vanilla CSS that works cross-browser.

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node-sass - :rainbow: Node.js bindings to libsass

•    C++

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Node-sass 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.

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myth - A CSS preprocessor that acts like a polyfill for future versions of the spec.

•    Javascript

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CSS the way it was imagined. Myth is a preprocessor that lets you write pure CSS without having to worry about slow browser support, or even slow spec approval. It's like a CSS polyfill.

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less.js - Less. The dynamic stylesheet language.

•    Javascript

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The dynamic stylesheet language. http://lesscss.org. This is the JavaScript, official, stable version of Less.

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suit - Style tools for UI components

•    CSS

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Style tools for component-based UI development. Each of these modules are made up of smaller modules, making it easy to customize your setup and build pipeline.

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

•    Javascript

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Stylus is a revolutionary new language, providing an efficient, dynamic, and expressive way to generate CSS. Supporting both an indented syntax and regular CSS style. You can also try all stylus features on stylus-lang.com, build something with stylus on codepen or integrate stylus with gulp using gulp-stylus or gulp-accord.

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posthtml - PostHTML is a tool to transform HTML/XML with JS plugins

•    Javascript

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PostHTML is a tool for transforming HTML/XML with JS plugins. PostHTML itself is very small. It includes only a HTML parser, a HTML node tree API and a node tree stringifier. All HTML transformations are made by plugins. And these plugins are just small plain JS functions, which receive a HTML node tree, transform it, and return a modified tree.

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MDsveX - A markdown preprocessor for Svelte.

•    Javascript

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A Markdown preprocessor for Svelte. Markdown in Svelte. This is a monorepo containing mdsvex and any supporting packages. Each repo has it's own readme with more details.

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manifold - Manifold is a Java compiler plugin, its features include Metaprogramming, Properties, Extension Methods, Operator Overloading, Templates, a Preprocessor, and more

•    Java

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Manifold is a Java compiler plugin, its features include Metaprogramming, Properties, Extension Methods, Operator Overloading, Templates, a Preprocessor, and more.

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gulp-ruby-sass - Compile Sass to CSS with Ruby Sass

•    Javascript

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Requires Sass >=3.4.Use gulp-ruby-sass instead of gulp.src to compile Sass files.

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grunt-contrib-compass - Compile Compass to CSS.

•    Javascript

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Run this task with the grunt compass command. Compass is an open-source authoring framework for the Sass css preprocessor. It helps you build stylesheets faster with a huge library of Sass mixins and functions, advanced tools for spriting, and workflow improvements including file based Sass configuration and a simple pattern for building and using Compass extensions.

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grunt-styleguide - Universal CSS styleguide generator for grunt

•    HTML

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If you are looking for a replacement and are using kss or styledocco see below. Universal CSS styleguide generator for grunt. Easily integrate Styledocco or KSS styleguide generation into your development workflow.

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stylis.js - light – weight css preprocessor

•    Javascript

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By default vendor is enabled, however there is an option to disable vendor prefixing, either completely or dynamically. The following would disable prefixing.

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styl - Flexible and fast modular CSS preprocessor built on top of Rework

•    Javascript

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Work-in-progress CSS preprocessor. Spiritual successor of Stylus. Built on top of Rework.Styl is basically an opinionated configuration of Rework. It does not aim for feature parity with Stylus.

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Cloak - A mini-preprocessor library to demostrate the recursive capabilites of the preprocessor

•    C

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This is just for exposition. For production, use chaos-pp which is superior in every way.

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