FindSoftware

PostCSS

Tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript plugins.

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 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.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Andrey Sitnik4
First release
20137

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Dev only, In the browser5
Install with
npm package postcss, JS API5

Releases

Current major version
88
Last release
2026-10-268

Adoption

GitHub stars
28,9672
npm downloads a week
359,548,59510
Contributors
4089
Plugins
2005
Dependent repositories
3,705,25111
Dependent packages
38,37511

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-10-28: links
    postcss.org/
  2. 2026-10-28: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/postcss/postcss
  3. 2026-10-28: links
    postcss.org/docs/
  4. 2026-10-28: Maintainer, License
    raw.githubusercontent.com/postcss/postcss/main/LICENSE
  5. 2026-10-28: Categories, Install with, Runs as, links, Plugins
    github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/main/README.md
  6. 2026-10-28: Runtime, Minimum runtime
    github.com/postcss/postcss/blob/8.5.32/package.json
  7. 2026-10-28: First release
    registry.npmjs.org/postcss
  8. 2026-10-28: Current major version, Last release
    api.github.com/repos/postcss/postcss/releases
  9. 2026-10-28: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/postcss/postcss/contributors
  10. 2026-10-28: npm downloads a week
    api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-09-28:2026-10-04/postcss
  11. 2026-10-28: Dependent packages, Dependent repositories
    packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/npmjs.org/packages/postcss

Last reviewed · Listed since Edit on GitHubThis page as markdownas JSON