# madeleineostoja/rucksack

A little bag of CSS superpowers, built on PostCSS

Repository: https://github.com/madeleineostoja/rucksack
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rucksack
Homepage: https://www.rucksackcss.org
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: postcss, postcss-plugins, css-framework, responsive-typography, css
Last push: 2021-01-24T23:49:37+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4076, "days_push": 2047, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1831, forks 46 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:41.840642+00:00)

## What it is
Rucksack is a PostCSS plugin bundle that adds CSS features and shortcuts like responsive typography, shorthand positioning, clearfix, and extra pseudo-elements. It is distributed as the npm package rucksack-css and integrates with Gulp, Webpack, Grunt, Stylus, a CLI, and a JavaScript API.

## Use cases
- add responsive fluid typography to css
- use shorthand syntax for css position properties
- generate clearfix with css
- auto-generate font-face src sets
- standardize input range styling across browsers
- convert hex colors to rgba in css

## When to choose
- you want extra CSS conveniences on top of standard CSS via PostCSS
- you need fluid responsive typography without a full framework
- you already use PostCSS in your build pipeline

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained solution - the project has a successor, Satchel, and its last release was 2021
- you want a full CSS framework with components and layout systems
- you use CSS-in-JS, in which case Satchel is the recommended alternative

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: css-framework, ui-components, developer-tools
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: postcss, postcss-plugins, responsive-typography, css-utilities, build-tool-plugin, nodejs

## Member repositories
- madeleineostoja/rucksack (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:41.840642+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 2026-08-30T03:19:12.287168+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/madeleineostoja/rucksack (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:41.840642+00:00, sha 025bc73014a9)
  - homepage: https://www.rucksackcss.org (fetched 2026-08-29T10:58:13.136461+00:00, sha 07a7975d95e7)
  - site_page: https://www.legislate.tech/about (fetched 2026-08-29T10:58:13.146575+00:00, sha aa3d4f2f157a)
  - site_page: https://www.legislate.tech/post/what-is-a-pdf (fetched 2026-08-29T10:58:13.152636+00:00, sha eb60d225a127)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.