rework

rework (GitHub: reworkcss/rework, License: MIT) is a tool for CSS manipulations built on css, allowing you to automate vendor prefixing, create your own properties, inline images, anything you can imagine! Also works in the browser.

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npm install rework

Originally written by TJ Holowaychuk, rework is a module for working with CSS. Just like esprima (GitHub: ariya/esprima, License: BSD 4-Clause) for JavaScript, rework allows you to change and extend CSS, basically take it to a whole new level.

Example

To get an idea of how to use rework, take a look at one of the many plugins. A good example would be rework-imagesize (GitHub: simme/rework-imagesize, License: MIT) plugin.

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var rework = require('rework');
var size   = require('rework-imagesize');
var css = rework(str)
  .use(size('path/to/images/folder'))
  .toString();

Using the above JavaScript. This:

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h1 {
  background: url('myimage.png');
  imgsize: myimage.png;
  text-indent: 100%;
}

Would produce something like:

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h1 {
  background: url('myimage.png');
  text-indent: 100%;
  height: 201px;
  width: 300px;
}

Rework Github account has a good number of modules to do various things to your CSS. I also like the idea of using rework as a post processor for your favourite dynamic CSS language, such as LESSStylus or SASS.

Curious what is your favourite dynamic CSS framework?

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