PostCSS Simple Vars
PostCSS plugin providing Sass-like variable syntax for CSS files.
Styling and CSS npm MIT
How PostCSS Simple Vars is used
PostCSS Simple Vars is a dependency in 5 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 21 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Sass (108 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Mantine (100.0%), postcss-preset-mantine (100.0%), React (100.0%).
PostCSS Simple Vars popularity over time
Gid Score 37: downloads 63, use in agent projects 28, GitHub stars 0, downloads trend 53 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with PostCSS Simple Vars
| Mantine | 100.0% of PostCSS Simple Vars projects · 388.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| postcss-preset-mantine | 100.0% of PostCSS Simple Vars projects · 1034.7× more than average |
| React | 100.0% of PostCSS Simple Vars projects · 3.1× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 100.0% of PostCSS Simple Vars projects · 3.1× more than average |
| Tabler Icons | 66.7% of PostCSS Simple Vars projects · 69.0× more than average |
| Vite | 66.7% of PostCSS Simple Vars projects · 3.4× more than average |
| TanStack Query | 47.6% of PostCSS Simple Vars projects · 6.5× more than average |
| TypeScript | 100.0% of PostCSS Simple Vars projects · 1.8× more than average |
From all 21 projects in our scan that use PostCSS Simple Vars, including the dependency samples.
How PostCSS Simple Vars 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-nested, postcss-url, postcss-selector-parser.
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 Simple Vars
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install postcss-simple-vars |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (13), Next.js (7), PHP (1) |
| Example projects | metaplex-foundation/mpl-core-ui, Parham-dev/ai-agent-cs, pubkeyapp/solana-wallet-adapter-mantine-ui, evanhsu/firecrew |
Alternatives to PostCSS Simple Vars
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside PostCSS Simple Vars are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sass npm CSS preprocessor adding variables, nesting and mixins to stylesheets. |
65 | 108 (2.2%) | 17.1M | 4,234 | MIT |
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