# sylvainpolletvillard/postcss-grid-kiss

A PostCSS plugin to keep CSS grids stupidly simple

Repository: https://github.com/sylvainpolletvillard/postcss-grid-kiss
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/postcss-grid-kiss
Homepage: https://sylvainpolletvillard.github.io/grid-kiss-playground/index.html
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: postcss, ascii-art, visual, layout, css, grids, kiss
Last push: 2023-10-07T01:50:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3578, "days_push": 1062, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1316, forks 50 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:20.774479+00:00)

## What it is
A PostCSS plugin that lets developers define CSS Grid layouts by drawing them as ASCII art directly inside a single 'grid-kiss' declaration in their stylesheet. At build time it compiles that visual diagram into the full set of standard CSS Grid properties and grid-area assignments for the matching selectors.

## Use cases
- simplify writing css grid layouts in a stylesheet
- draw page layouts as ascii art inside css
- replace verbose css grid properties with one declaration
- postcss plugin to generate css grid code
- visualize and maintain grid layouts directly in source css
- convert ascii grid diagrams to grid-area rules

## When to choose
- You already have PostCSS in your build pipeline and want readable, visual grid definitions
- You want one intuitive declaration instead of the ~24 CSS Grid properties
- You value seeing the layout structure at a glance in your CSS source

## When to avoid
- You don't use a PostCSS/Node build step and need plain CSS only
- You're comfortable with native CSS Grid syntax, which is now widely supported
- You or your team find ASCII art hard to diff, review, or maintain in version control

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: build-tool, css-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: -
- tags: postcss-plugin, css-grid, ascii-art, layout, stylesheet, css-transpiler, developer-tools, nodejs

## Member repositories
- sylvainpolletvillard/postcss-grid-kiss (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:20.774479+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 2026-08-30T04:48:39.223746+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sylvainpolletvillard/postcss-grid-kiss (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:20.774479+00:00, sha e9374a22c1be)
  - homepage: https://sylvainpolletvillard.github.io/grid-kiss-playground/index.html (fetched 2026-08-29T12:07:13.044801+00:00, sha 817fe72015e7)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/postcss-grid-kiss (fetched 2026-08-29T12:07:13.054149+00:00, sha fbb4d174a504)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.