# thoughtbot/bourbon

A Lightweight Sass Tool Set

Repository: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/bourbon
Homepage: https://www.bourbon.io/
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: sass, bourbon-family, css, scss, bourbon, sass-mixins, sass-library, sass-functions
Archived: true
Last push: 2024-09-13T18:28:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5611, "days_push": 719, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9004, forks 858 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:26.733834+00:00)

## What it is
Bourbon is a lightweight, dependency-free library of Sass mixins and functions for writing stylesheets more efficiently. It was deprecated in September 2024 in favor of modern native CSS features.

## Use cases
- write sass mixins for css prefixes
- lightweight sass utility library
- sass functions for stylesheet authoring
- replace vendor prefix boilerplate in scss
- sass toolset for rails projects

## When to choose
- maintaining a legacy codebase that already uses Bourbon
- working in an environment locked to older Sass/LibSass versions

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - it is deprecated and unmaintained
- modern browsers where native CSS features cover the same needs

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: css-framework, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: cross-platform, ruby
- tags: sass, scss, mixins, deprecated, stylesheets, nodejs

## Member repositories
- thoughtbot/bourbon (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:26.733834+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:24:21.463897+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:26.733834+00:00, sha 30409ec17ee2)
  - homepage: https://www.bourbon.io/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:24:20.043456+00:00, sha 3ea0dceb02f8)
  - site_page: https://www.bourbon.io/docs/latest (fetched 2026-08-29T08:24:20.052625+00:00, sha 6353bdd7f549)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.