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What are the best tools for building and generating css living styleguides?
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Best tools for building and generating css living styleguides
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SC5
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Jun 8, 2016
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PostCSS plugin
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Feb 14, 2017
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Knyle Style Sheets (KSS)
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Nov 29, 2015
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Hologram
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Jul 21, 2016
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Fabricator
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Jan 20, 2016
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SC5
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SC5
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Edit on the fly
The designer tool allows you to edit Sass, Less and PostCSS in the browser, which can be saved to the main file.
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Renders slow for big projects
The generated website can render slow for larger projects.
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Powerful search feature
There is a built-in search feature that allow you to quickly find components and markup examples.
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Extends KSS
SC5 is built on, and extends the functionality of KSS. It is compatible with existing KSS styleguides.
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Easy to customize
The default theme is easy to override using CSS or Sass.
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Wide range of support
It supports SASS, LESS, PostCSS styles as well as pure CSS style sheets.
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PostCSS plugin
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Themeable
There are some existing themes available (such as material design). Or you can use the PSG-theme generator.
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Requires PostCSS
It's a PostCSS plugin, so it requires that you also set up PostCSS and Node in your project.
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PostCSS workflow
Since it is a PostCSS plugin, it's very fast to set up for those already using PostCSS and integrates perfectly with the PostCSS workflow.
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Supports Markdown comments in CSS
CSS comments are parsed through markdown and appear in the generated HTML file.
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Knyle Style Sheets (KSS)
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Knyle Style Sheets (KSS)
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Simple to use
KSS has a very simple syntax that can be learned in minutes.
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Can be difficult to set up
Getting started with KSS can feel complex compared to other living styleguides, which is even admitted in the KSS documentation.
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Offers both Rails and Node.js versions
There are a couple different versions of KSS to choose from, KSS-Rails and KSS-Node.
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KSS is used in large organizations like Github
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Hologram
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Requires Ruby
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Very customizable
Hologram has a variety of plugins and extensions to choose from, and the ability to create custom renderers.
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Poor error reporting
Currently Hologram has limited error reporting, sometime giving unhelpful messages or failing silently.
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Supports variety of file types
Hologram supports Markdown and JavaScript, as well as popular preprocessors (Less, Sass, and Stylus).
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StyleDocco
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Easy to use
StyleDocco is easy to learn (uses Markdown) and quick to set up.
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Not an active project
The last release was January 2014 and there has been no activity over the past year.
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