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Stylecow vs CSS-Crush

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When comparing Stylecow vs CSS-Crush, the Slant community recommends Stylecow for most people. In the question“What are the best CSS preprocessors/postprocessors?” Stylecow is ranked 7th while CSS-Crush is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Stylecow is:

It's written in node, so you can install it with npm. All available plugins are installed by default and include some development tools like a watcher and a browser live-reload so it don't need more than few seconds to be ready to start to work.

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Stylecow

CSS-Crush

Pros

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Easy to install and use

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Advanced API and parser

The parser detects any CSS syntax error found. The output code can be customized to follow your own code style rules (indentation, spaces, string quotes, etc). It has a clean and powerfull API, which make easy to create new plugins.

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No need to learn a new syntax

Since Stylecow allows developers to write simple, vanilla CSS, there's no need to learn a whole new language.

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Out of the box vendor prefixing

Rather than require a plugin, CSS-Crush will automatically add vendor prefixes.

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Implemented in PHP

PHP is used in common platforms such as Drupal and Wordpress, which results in CSS-Crush being easy to integrate with most development stacks.

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Cons

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May be merged with PostCSS in the future

Since Stylecow is pretty small and hasn't gained a lot of traction in the past 5 or so years since it was first released but also because it serves kind of the same purpose as PostCSS which is much more popular, there have been discussions on merging the two projects together.