# PostCSS

Tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript plugins.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/postcss/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-28
Listed since: 2026-10-28

## Record

### Links

- home: https://postcss.org
- repository: https://github.com/postcss/postcss
- docs: https://postcss.org/docs/
- plugins: https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/docs/plugins.md
- x: https://twitter.com/postcss

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Andrey Sitnik
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2013
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: css-framework
- hosting: not applicable
- language: javascript
- runtime: node
- runtimeMin: node 10
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: local, browser
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: npm package postcss, JS API

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT, The MIT License (MIT)

### Releases

- currentMajor: 8
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-26

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 28967
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: 359548595
- contributors: 408
- pluginCount: 200
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 3705251
- dependentPackages: 38375

### Sources

- urls: https://postcss.org/ (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/postcss/postcss (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://postcss.org/docs/ (read 2026-10-28)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/postcss/postcss/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-28)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/postcss/postcss (read 2026-10-28)
- category: https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- runtime: https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/8.5.32/package.json (read 2026-10-28)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/8.5.32/package.json (read 2026-10-28)
- installMethod: https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- runsAs: https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- runsAs: https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/postcss/postcss (read 2026-10-28)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/postcss/postcss/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-28)
- firstRelease: https://registry.npmjs.org/postcss (read 2026-10-28)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/postcss/postcss/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/postcss/postcss/releases (read 2026-10-28)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/postcss/postcss (read 2026-10-28)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/postcss/postcss/contributors (read 2026-10-28)
- npmWeeklyDownloads: https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-09-28:2026-10-04/postcss (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/postcss (read 2026-10-28)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/postcss (read 2026-10-28)
- urls: https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)
- pluginCount: https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/README.md (read 2026-10-28)

## Notes

PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript plugins. It is installed from npm and used through its JavaScript API, and its README also describes running it from the command line or npm scripts through a separate CLI package. It can compile a CSS string in the browser.

The [plugins list](https://github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/docs/plugins.md) in the repository names the plugins built on it, and the README says there are more than 200. The copyright holder named in the LICENSE is Andrey Sitnik, under the MIT License.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0