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The set of tools for working with CSS, including fast detailed parser (string->AST), walkers, generators (AST->string) and even lexer (validation and matching) based on knowledge of spec and browser implementations (see schema for details). The main goal to be efficient and W3C spec complient, with focus on analyzing and source-to-source processing.
Work in progress. The project in alpha stage since some parts need further experiments, AST format and API are subjects to change. However it's stable enough and used by packages like CSSO (CSS minifier) in production.
Docs and tools:
Related projects:
> npm install css-tree
var csstree = require('css-tree');
var ast = csstree.parse('.example { world: "!" }');
csstree.walk(ast, function(node) {
if (node.type === 'ClassSelector' && node.name === 'example') {
node.name = 'hello';
}
});
console.log(csstree.translate(ast));
// .hello{world:"!"}
MIT
Syntax matching uses mdn/data by Mozilla Contributors
PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript plugins. It can do similar tasks as css-tree, such as parsing, walking the AST, and generating CSS. PostCSS is plugin-based, which makes it more extensible and allows for a wide range of transformations.
Sass is a preprocessor scripting language that is interpreted or compiled into CSS. It offers more syntactic features compared to css-tree, such as variables, nesting, and mixins, but it is not primarily focused on parsing and manipulating existing CSS.
Less is another CSS pre-processor, similar to Sass, that extends the capabilities of CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations, and functions. Less and css-tree serve different purposes, with Less focusing on writing CSS in a more functional way and css-tree on parsing and manipulation.
clean-css is a fast and efficient CSS optimizer for Node.js and the browser. It focuses on minification, which is one of the features of css-tree, but does not provide a general-purpose CSS parsing and manipulation API.
FAQs
A tool set for CSS: fast detailed parser (CSS → AST), walker (AST traversal), generator (AST → CSS) and lexer (validation and matching) based on specs and browser implementations
The npm package css-tree receives a total of 17,775,171 weekly downloads. As such, css-tree popularity was classified as popular.
We found that css-tree demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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