How to style React applications while the world burns around us (2020)
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Re: How to style React applications while the world burns around us (2020)
#2Deserves a (2020) tag I think, given the regular references to "current times", plus the rate of change in the CSS/JS space
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#3Deserves a (2020) tag I think, given the regular references to "current times", plus the rate of change in the CSS/JS space
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#4> Ant Design is a product of Ant Financial, which I gather is the PayPal of the Alibaba universe. It’s very widely used in China.
This feels a bit dismissive. Alipay is the largest payment platform in the world.
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#5Maybe I'm the minority here, but with something like Vite I can import a css file directly into a given component's file and call it a day. Haven't worried about scoping in forever, and only need to manage a number of distinct, small, and comprehensible css files.
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#6Maybe I'm the minority here, but with something like Vite I can import a css file directly into a given component's file and call it a day. Haven't worried about scoping in forever, and only need to manage a number of distinct, small, and comprehensible css files.
Tailwind kills the scoping problem too
I went through a very similar story to the author and ended up with the same conclusion. Once I tried it, everything else felt terrible
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#8> There should be a German noun for the fear of breaking something in a CSS codebase.
Webseitenstilzerschütterungsangst?
Re: How to style React applications while the world burns around us (2020)
#9When talking about CSS-in-JS I am reminded of the short lived escapade at Netscape around 1997/1998 when they launched JSSS, only be be shut out by Microsoft ignoring support for it in the increasingly dominant Internet Explorer as they favored CSS. As a result it died and disappeared.
http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-04-1997/swol-04-...
Re: How to style React applications while the world burns around us (2020)
#10This article is an excellent summary of recent trends and philosophies of CSS. The only new, noteworthy styling solution missed (from what I can tell) is StyleX from Meta.
As someone working in this space, it's a huge relief to move away from piles of CSS/SCSS files towards colocating styles with markup.