Biome vs. JavaScript vs. PostCSS vs. Refraction Comparison Chart

Biome is a comprehensive toolchain for web projects, offering high-performance formatting and linting capabilities for languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, TSX, JSON, CSS, and GraphQL. Its formatter achieves 97% compatibility with Prettier, enabling rapid code formatting that can handle malformed code in real time within various editors. The linter incorporates over 270 rules from ESLint, TypeScript ESLint, and other sources, providing detailed, contextual diagnostics to assist developers in enhancing code quality and adhering to best practices. Built with Rust, Biome ensures exceptional speed and efficiency, capable of formatting extensive codebases significantly faster than comparable tools. It is designed for seamless integration into development environments, offering a unified solution for code formatting and linting without the need for extensive configuration. Designed to handle codebases of any size. Focus on growing products instead of your tools.

PostCSS is a versatile tool that transforms CSS using JavaScript plugins, enabling a wide range of functionalities such as linting, supporting variables and mixins, transpiling future CSS syntax, and inlining images. It serves as a framework for developing CSS tools and can be utilized to create template languages similar to Sass and LESS. The core of PostCSS comprises a CSS parser that generates an abstract syntax tree, a set of classes that form the tree, a CSS generator that produces a CSS line for the object tree, and a code map generator for CSS changes. Plugins operate on the object tree, analyzing and modifying it before PostCSS generates a new CSS string reflecting these changes. Notable plugins include Autoprefixer, which adds vendor prefixes, and Stylelint, a modern CSS linter that enforces consistent conventions and avoids errors in stylesheets. PostCSS is employed by industry leaders such as Wikipedia, Twitter, Alibaba, and JetBrains.