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Re: Ask HN: How to bypass learning CSS?

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Post by nickjj »

gls2ro wrote: post #3

If you are ok to pay for not learning CSS I suggest you to take a look at TailwindUI where there are a lot of screens already created.

There's also https://tailkit.com/ which has 300+ components. I ended up doing a video review[0] of it a few months ago.

[0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/reviewing-tailkit-300-tailwin...

Re: Ask HN: How to bypass learning CSS?

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Post by shireboy »

Bulma or bootstrap or pay someone to do it for you. Honestly, though, try to shake the idea that learning anything is dreadful. Whether it’s css, JavaScript, or quantum physics, learn as much as you can about everything you can. Then, if you need help with your css you can know what it’s worth to you to pay someone else to do it.

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Post by dustymcp »

frameworks as all other mentioned but dont expect it to solve all your problems though eventually you will have to learn abit if you are doing it solo, i find doing it after a heavy 'backend' session is refreshing, instantly seeing results can be very nice when other stuff gets hard.

Re: Ask HN: How to bypass learning CSS?

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Post by __oh_es »

Water.css and pinegrow could be options for you, but as others have pointed out its best to just embrace learning css or pay someone to do it for you.

Bootstrap and tailwind would be my other recommendations as they’re well documented and pragmatic.

Re: Ask HN: How to bypass learning CSS?

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Post by quyse »

I would recommend Fomantic UI https://fomantic-ui.com/ (active community fork of Semantic UI) + Semantic UI React https://react.semantic-ui.com/ (which is a React wrapper over Semantic UI, but works with Fomantic UI as well). Almost no CSS writing is necessary, customizability of the React components via props should be enough for MVP and even further.

Re: Ask HN: How to bypass learning CSS?

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Post by onion2k »

If you don't want anything bespoke then there are lots of UI libraries around - Tailwind, Bootstrap, Chakra, Fluent, etc.

If you need anything more custom then you have no choice besides diving into HTML and CSS (getting the HTML right makes the CSS much easier). Or pay someone.

Re: Ask HN: How to bypass learning CSS?

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Post by daxfohl »

I recommend learning it. I never did and I think it stunted me. The few times I did need to go deep with something, it was actually quite intuitive, interesting, and powerful. But I think I ended up spending so much time working around things just because I didn't know what I was doing, that it would have been more efficient just to sit down and learn it at the beginning.

Try to get the preconception that it's boring grunt work out of your head and just dedicate some time to learn it. You'll be much happier later.

Do start with a framework though.

Re: Ask HN: How to bypass learning CSS?

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Post by atoav »

SimeVidas wrote: post #10

> I'm simply dreading CSS What’s the problem?

I guess that some things that "should be simple" are incredibly hard to figure out for beginners in CSS.

I like css, because it is just incredibly powerful, if you know how to use it. There are still some things that could really improve (css needs a "contains" selector that allows you to e.g. select paragraphs that contain an image, without selecting paragraphs that just contain text). Certain things that are common usecases (like centering a container on a page) are not straightforward in all cases etc.

That being said a lot has improved in the last

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