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What is the difference between SASS and SCSS?

Rushi Javiya

Updated on 11-May-2023 409 Views

SASS is a language extension of CSS that can add new features for writing stylesheets easier. At the same time, Compass is a framework built on top of SASS that provides more functionality and simplifies the development of stylesheets. This means that every valid CSS3 stylesheet is a valid SCSS as well. The extension we use for scss files is .scss. SCSS uses the indentation of lines rather than brackets or semi-colons to identify the line blocks. Although no longer the primary syntax, the indented syntax will continue to be supported. Files in the indented syntax use the extension .sass ...