postcss-nested
PostCSS plugin that unwraps nested CSS rules the way Sass does.
Styling and CSS npm MIT
How postcss-nested is used
postcss-nested joined the catalog on its public numbers (23,237,159 downloads a week on npm and 1,199 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 12 public GitHub projects of our scan, 7 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use postcss-import (83.3%), Tailwind CSS (100.0%), React (83.3%).
postcss-nested popularity over time
Gid Score 49: downloads 93, use in agent projects 20, GitHub stars 15, downloads trend 54 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with postcss-nested
| postcss-import | 83.3% of postcss-nested projects · 161.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| Tailwind CSS | 100.0% of postcss-nested projects · 3.1× more than average |
| React | 83.3% of postcss-nested projects · 2.6× more than average |
| Prettier | 66.7% of postcss-nested projects · 3.2× more than average |
| Testing Library | 50.0% of postcss-nested projects · 4.9× more than average |
| Husky | 50.0% of postcss-nested projects · 4.9× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS Animate | 50.0% of postcss-nested projects · 7.3× more than average |
| Radix UI | 50.0% of postcss-nested projects · 3.8× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list postcss-nested as a dependency.
How postcss-nested is funded
Open Collective: PostCSS and Autoprefixer
| Received, last 12 months | $9,801 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $10,137 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $54,054 |
| Raised since the start | $54,054 |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $284 · $398 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +47% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 22 |
Top company backers all time, 23 companies in total
| Tailwind CSS | $10,000 since Mar 2020 |
|---|---|
| ThemeIsle | $10,000 since Mar 2021 |
| THANKS.DEV | $7,149 since Feb 2024 |
| Modern Treasury | $4,800 since Dec 2021 |
| InVision AG | $4,400 since May 2020 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Dec 2019. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 5 more tools in our catalog: postcss-import, PostCSS CLI, postcss-url, postcss-selector-parser, PostCSS Simple Vars.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Evil Martians. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @ai | 17 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes Nanoid (JavaScript), size-limit, Browserslist.
Ways to fund postcss-nested
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install postcss-nested |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (6), Python (4), Next.js (2) |
| Example projects | tangle-network/dapp, wuhhh/solaris |
Alternatives to postcss-nested
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Styling and CSS does the same job as postcss-nested: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
More in Styling and CSS: Tailwind CSS Tailwind Merge Emotion Sass tailwind-variants NativeWind Fontsource Inter postcss-import