Stylus

Expressive, dynamic, robust CSS

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CSS needs a hero

body {
  font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
}
a.button {
  -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
  -moz-border-radius: 5px;
  border-radius: 5px;
}

What if we could omit braces?

body
  font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;

a.button
  -webkit-border-radius: 5px;
  -moz-border-radius: 5px;
  border-radius: 5px;

How about semi-colons?

body
  font: 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

a.button
  -webkit-border-radius: 5px
  -moz-border-radius: 5px
  border-radius: 5px

Why stop there, drop the colons

body
  font 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

a.button
  -webkit-border-radius 5px
  -moz-border-radius 5px
  border-radius 5px

Keep things DRY

border-radius()
  -webkit-border-radius arguments
  -moz-border-radius arguments
  border-radius arguments

body
  font 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

a.button
  border-radius(5px)

How about transparent mixins?

border-radius()
  -webkit-border-radius arguments
  -moz-border-radius arguments
  border-radius arguments

body
  font 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

a.button
  border-radius 5px

Create & Share

@import 'vendor'

body
  font 12px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

a.button
  border-radius 5px

Even in-language functions!

sum(nums...)
  sum = 0
  sum += n for n in nums

sum(1 2 3 4)
// => 10

What if it were all optional?

fonts = helvetica, arial, sans-serif

body {
  padding: 50px;
  font: 14px/1.4 fonts;
}

Get styling with Stylus

Installing Stylus is very easy once you have Node.js. So get the binaries for your platform and make sure that they also include npm, Node’s package manager.

Now, type in your terminal:

$ npm install stylus -g

If you want an expressive css language for nodejs with these features or the features listed below, head over to  GitHub for more information.

Features

  • Optional colons
  • Optional semi-colons
  • Optional commas
  • Optional braces
  • Variables
  • Interpolation
  • Mixins
  • Arithmetic
  • Type coercion
  • Dynamic importing
  • Conditionals
  • Iteration
  • Nested selectors
  • Parent referencing
  • Variable function calls
  • Lexical scoping
  • Built-in functions (over 60)
  • In-language functions
  • Optional compression
  • Optional image inlining
  • Stylus executable
  • Robust error reporting
  • Single-line and multi-line comments
  • CSS literal for those tricky times
  • Character escaping
  • TextMate bundle
  • and more!