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Stylus is a revolutionary new language, providing an efficient, dynamic, and expressive way to generate CSS. Supporting both an indented syntax and regular CSS style.
## Sponsors
You can sponsor stylus ongoing development via [opencollective](https://opencollective.com/stylus/) or [paypal](https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/iChenLei/) !
### Backers
[](https://opencollective.com/stylus/)
## Installation
```bash
$ npm install stylus -g
```
## Basic Usage
Watch and compile a stylus file from command line with
```bash
stylus -w style.styl -o style.css
```
You can also [try all stylus features on stylus-lang.com](http://stylus-lang.com/try.html), build something with stylus on [codepen](http://codepen.io) or [RunKit](https://npm.runkit.com/stylus)
### 📖 New Docs (alpha)
Try our new [official documentation website](http://stylus-docs.netlify.app/) and give us feedback via [github issues](https://github.com/stylus/stylus/issues), thanks.
### Community modules
- https://github.com/stylus/stylus/wiki
### Stylus cheatsheet
- [Stylus cheatsheet](https://devhints.io/stylus), very useful stylus syntax code snippet for you
### Code of Conduct
Please note that this project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](Code_of_Conduct.md). By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
### Contribution
Please read our [Contribution Guide](Contributing.md) before making any pull requests to the project. Included are directions for opening issues, workflows, and coding standards.
Thank you to all the people who already contributed to Stylus!
## License
[MIT](https://github.com/stylus/stylus/blob/dev/LICENSE)
Copyright (c) 2010-present [TJ](https://github.com/tj) and [Stylus maintainers](https://github.com/orgs/stylus/people)