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“In what way is JS any more maintainable than CSS? How does writing CSS in JS make it any more maintainable?”
Happy to chat about this. There’s an obvious disclaimer that there’s a cost to css-in-js solutions, but that cost is paid specifically for the benefits it brings; as such it’s useful for some usecases, and not meant as a replacement for all workflows.
(These conversations always get heated on twitter, so please believe that I’m here to converse, not to convince. In return, I promise to listen to you too and change my opinions; I’ve had mad respect for you for years and would consider your feedback a gift. Also, some of the stuff I’m writing might seem obvious to you; I’m not trying to tell you if all people of some of the details, but it might be useful to someone else who bumps into this who doesn’t have context)
So the big deal about css-in-js (cij) is selectors.
Tailwind Config Stripped Version, which has been stripped of all default Tailwind values in order to ensure only the absolute necessary styles are generated into classes.
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I use the Essential JavaScript Links list almost daily. I add to it when I find more links that I think every JS developer should know about. I want to make it easier to scan, and easier for users to suggest new links. We're going to turn it into a proper website, so...
Git is the democracy of programming: it is the worst tool for version control, except all those other tools that have been tried from time to time. Among other problems, Git’s command names are obtuse (what is a “rebase”?) and non-orthogonal (how is “resetting” different than “checking out”?), and Git generally impedes the creation of an accurate mental model, but without understanding its underlying directed acyclic graph, one can’t move from beginner to intermediate user. Still, it is a necessary tool in every developer’s toolbox, and following good Git practices leads to smoother, more productive development. This guide assumes you already know how to use Git and discusses some of the higher level issues around standards for collaboration.
one-line React component for conditionally wrapping children
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Check comments below, this is only my opinion and a choice specific to my use case
We've architected a SPA to be universal-ready. It grew a lot, when we introduced code splitting we realised converting to CSS in JS was unavoidable in order to have pre-rendering and not load all our CSS up front. We've procrastinated on looking at CSS in JS properly, prioritasing immediate business needs, but kept an eye on industry evolutions.
Our CSS solution for components was a CSS companion file per component, imported with style / postCSS loader (with webpack) but no CSS modules: we were missing a tighter coupling between component rendering and styles. We were at the bottom of the CSS and componentization ladder, the following links have influenced us in choosing the right solution for us:
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