我们从创建 PostCSS 中学到的经验
12 years ago, we created PostCSS, a CSS automation tool with 400M monthly downloads which is used by Google, Wikipedia, Tailwind, and 38% of developers. In this post, we share what we learned during this long journey maintaining such a popular open source project.
12 年前，我们创建了 PostCSS，这是一个 CSS 自动化工具，每月下载量达 4 亿，被 Google、Wikipedia、Tailwind 以及 38% 的开发者 使用。在这篇文章中，我们分享了在维护这样一个广受欢迎的开源项目过程中学到的经验。
In 2013, I decided I no longer wanted to manually manage vendor prefixes like -webkit- in CSS. At the time, the common solution was to use Sass mixins, but I wanted something more automatic. The best UI is just having your problem solved without any UI. So, I created Autoprefixer, a tool which reads CSS as input and generates new CSS with vendor prefixes.
2013 年，我决定不再手动管理 CSS 中的厂商前缀，如 -webkit-。当时常见的解决方案是使用 Sass 的 mixin，但我想要更自动化的方式。最好的 UI 就是无需任何 UI 就能解决问题。 于是，我创建了 Autoprefixer，一个读取 CSS 并生成带厂商前缀的新 CSS 的工具。
For that project, I needed a CSS parser and API to work with CSS. And I found Rework by TJ Holawaychuk. The first versions of Autoprefixer were based on Rework (the first name was even rework-vendors).
在那个项目中，我需要一个 CSS 解析器和与之交互的 API。我找到了 TJ Holowaychuk 的 Rework。Autoprefixer 的早期版本就是基于 Rework 构建的（最初的名字甚至叫 rework-vendors）。
I quickly found that Rework isn’t enough for Autoprefixer. For instance, I wanted to preserve the original whitespace in CSS to be able to use Autoprefixer as a text editor plugin.
我很快发现 Rework 不足以支撑 Autoprefixer。例如，我想保留 CSS 的原始空白，以便把 Autoprefixer 用作文本编辑器插件。
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凭借 PostCSS 和 Autoprefixer 等被数百万开发者使用的开源工具，我们塑造了前端开发的格局。我们也能帮你打造开发者喜爱并日常依赖的产品！
Since TJ decided not to add this feature to Rework, I realized I needed to write my own CSS tooling framework.
由于 TJ 决定不将该功能加入 Rework，我意识到我需要编写自己的 CSS 工具框架。
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