Comparison of the compilation speed of the SCSS and LESS preprocessors
Andrii Berkovskyy
Student (Poland)
Kostiantyn Voskoboinik
(Poland)
Marcin Badurowicz
m.badurowicz@pollub.pl(Poland)
Abstract
This article compares the compilation speed of the SCSS and LESS preprocessor codes. Each preprocessor has its own syntax, which is transpiled into the CSS stylesheet language in the further development of the web page. These technologies serve the same purpose - to simplify and speed up the writing of page views, but are based on different programming languages - Ruby (SCSS) and JavaScript (LESS). For the purposes of the research, a test application was created, a series of tests was carried out on various sets of codes, the results were collected, which allowed to identify a preprocessor with a faster compilation speed, which turned out to be the LESS preprocessor.
Keywords:
CSS preprocessors, compilation speed comparison, SCSS, LESSReferences
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Andrii BerkovskyyStudent Poland
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Kostiantyn VoskoboinikPoland
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