Atomizer VS Radium

Tailwind CSS is a CSS framework that has gained incredible popularity, with usage skyrocketing 40% in three years, according to the State of CSS 2022. It offers benefits such as development speed, maintainability, and gzip optimization. As a result, it is expected to exceed 50% in the 2023 survey. However, the readability of Tailwind CSS decreases sharply as the style becomes more complex, which is a typical disadvantage of the utility-first approach. Personally, I recommend my library, CSS Lube, but in this article, I would like to introduce some simple tips that can improve the developer experience when using the Atomic CSS approach.

Dokumentasi resmi ACSS: https://acss.io/

Language - Master is a language, but it was originally inspired by ACSS's concept of atomic classes.

Tailwind and React are two leading technologies in their sphere. Tailwind CSS simplifies the concept of Atomic CSS, enabling developers to style their UI by adding some classes to their markup. And with the performance improvements that come with the new JIT compiler, Tailwind CSS has become a clear developer's favorite.

Atomic frameworks like Atomic CSS and Tailwind takes a single purpose approach to selectors, so CSS properties are naturally never overlapping – this is also why Tailwind's @apply is an anti-pattern when overused.

It sure is ugly-looking but it works well! Drawing inspiration from Atomic CSS and utility classes (1 class = 1 style), Tailwind makes a few strong design decisions:

Atomic CSS is the approach to CSS architecture that favors small, single-purpose classes with names based on visual function.

There are all kinds of approaches people take to maintain clean HTML/CSS, such as BEM or Atomic CSS.

Atomic

options = Object.assign({}, optionsDefault, options); This is the commit that made me wonder.

Radium

If you have some experience with React, you probably came across styled-components. In the last few years, the concept of css-in-js became more popular, and there are multiple libraries that are available for us to use. styled-components is one of them, but you can also find Emotion, Radium, JSS, and more. In this post I'm not going to cover the pros and cons of traditional stylesheet files vs. styled-components, and instead - I'm going to focus on tagged template literals - the "magic" that let us use the styled-components syntax.