twitter-archive/recess
A simple and attractive code quality tool for CSS built on top of LESS observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5251
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 3789
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2166 stars · 195 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
RECESS is a CSS code quality tool built on top of LESS, developed at Twitter to enforce styleguide rules. It can lint CSS/LESS files for style issues and also compile or compress LESS into CSS, usable via CLI or a programmatic API.
Use cases
- lint css files for style guide violations
- compile less to css from the command line
- enforce property ordering in stylesheets
- compress css for production builds
- watch less files and auto-compile on change
When to choose
- maintaining a legacy codebase already using recess
- working with old LESS versions compatible with the tool
When to avoid
- starting a new project - it is no longer maintained
- using modern LESS versions, which it does not support
- needing up-to-date CSS linting - use stylelint instead
Facets
cli-tool · maturity abandoned
linter formatter build-tool web-development frontend developer-tools cli cross-platform css less code-quality stylelint-predecessor deprecated nodejs
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/twitter-archive/recess · fetched 2026-08-28 · d0304c8f3ea5
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| twitter-archive/recess | main | 10 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="twitter-archive/recess")
Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem