We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem
12 days ago
- #CSS
- #Frontend Development
- #Web Design
- CSS was originally designed for styling documents, not modern web applications.
- Modern frontend architectures (React, Vue, Svelte) focus on components, but CSS remains global and cascading by default.
- The styling landscape is full of trade-offs, with no perfect solution.
- Most styling pain comes from trying to fit CSS into component-based architectures.
- CSS is not a module system, despite efforts to make it behave like one.
- Styling the web may never be 'solved,' but understanding trade-offs helps.
- The key is to find CSS solutions that are 'good enough to ship.'