A tool for diffing CSS files by parsing them into Abstract Syntax Trees using reworkcss/css, sorting them, and comparing the stringified output. Useful for finding functional changes in CSS built from a preprocessor such as SASS.

Install css-ast-diff as a cli using npm:

npm i -g css-ast-diff

Compare a file to the latest commit on HEAD of its git repository (i.e. git diff HEAD):

css-ast-diff build/style.css

Compare a file to the original file in the SVN working copy:

css-ast-diff --svn build/style.css

Compare two files:

css-ast-diff style-new.css style-old.css

Compare two files with absolute paths:

css-ast-diff --absolute-paths ~/Desktop/style-new.css ~/Desktop/style-old.css

Comparing files with rules simply rearranged should yield no differences:

* {
  -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

body {
  background: red;
  font-size: 18px;
}

body {
  background: red;
  font-size: 18px;
}

* {
 -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
 box-sizing: border-box;
}

Files with duplicate selectors and media queries show a diff with duplicate rules merged [src] [diff]:

css-ast-diff test/duplicates/diff.css test/duplicates/src.css

Index: file
===================================================================
--- file
+++ file
@@ -2,8 +2,13 @@
   body {
     background: green;
     font-size: 21px;
   }
+
+  div {
+    margin: 0 auto;
+    text-decoration: underline;
+  }
 }

 * {
   -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
@@ -11,10 +16,17 @@
 }

 body {
   background: red;
+  background: orange;
+  background: yellow;
+  background: green;
+  background: blue;
+  background: indigo;
+  background: violet;
   font-size: 18px;
 }

 p {
   color: purple !important;
+  color: pink;
 }
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