explore/topics/postcss/index.md

topic	display_name	short_description	wikipedia_url	url	github_url	created_by	released	related
postcss	PostCSS	PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript. It can be used to develop a template language such as Sass and LESS.	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostCSS	https://postcss.org/	https://github.com/postcss	Andrey Sitnik, Ben Briggs, Bogdan Chadkin	November 4, 2013	sass, less, ast

PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript. It can be used to develop a template language such as Sass and LESS. The PostCSS core consists of:

• CSS parser that generates an abstract syntax tree
• Set of classes that comprises the tree
• CSS generator that generates a CSS line for the object tree
• Code map generator for the CSS changes made#

There are official tools making it possible to use PostCSS with build systems such as Webpack, Gulp, and Grunt. There is also a console interface available. Browserify or Webpack can be used to open PostCSS in a browser.

The complete plugin list can be found on postcss.parts, with some examples listed below.

• Autoprefixer to add and clear browser prefixes.
• CSS Modules to get CSS selectors isolated and code organized. It is supplied as part of Webpack.
• stylelint to analyze CSS code for mistakes and check style consistency.
• stylefmt fixes the CSS code according to the stylelint settings.
• PreCSS to perform some Sass/Less preprocessing functions.
• postcss-preset-env to emulate features from unfinished CSS specification drafts.
• cssnano to make CSS smaller in size by getting rid of the spaces and rewriting the code.
• RTLCSS to change CSS code so that the design should be suitable for right-to-left writing (such is applied in Arabic and Hebrew).
• postcss-assets, postcss-inline-svg and postcss-sprites to work with graphics.