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vanilla-extract
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The best testing strategies for frontends
In our experience, the best testing strategy for modern frontends is a combination of E2E testing (using Playwright+NextJS), and unit testing. Visual regression testing is not worth the effort in our opinion, especially with the advent of better CSS tooling like TailwindCSS and Vanilla Extract.
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Is there really anything better than Css Modules?
For building component libraries I’ve been a big fan of vanilla extract. Apparently it’s from the same people who made css modules
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Introducing StyleX - the styling system used by Meta
This sounds exactly like Vanilla Extract. https://vanilla-extract.style/
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An Overview of 25+ UI Component Libraries in 2023
KumaUI : Another relatively new contender, Kuma uses zero runtime CSS-in-JS to create headless UI components which allows a lot of flexibility. It was heavily inspired by other zero runtime CSS-in-JS solutions such as PandaCSS, Vanilla Extract, and Linaria, as well as by Styled System, ChakraUI, and Native Base. ### Vue
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Creating a Component Library Fast🚀(using Vite's library mode)
The components are styled with CSS modules. When building the library, these styles will get transformed to normal CSS style sheets. This means that the consuming application will not even be required to support CSS modules. (In the future I want to extend this tutorial to use vanilla-extract instead.)
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Tailwind CSS and the death of web craftsmanship
I do a lot of UI work and have never understood the appeal of Tailwind. It’s like relearning a new language. Tailwind was released in 2017. Maybe the CSS landscape wasn’t as good back then? Modern CSS is pretty awesome.
I’ve enjoyed using Vanilla Extract https://vanilla-extract.style/. It’s like css-in-js with none of the downsides as everything gets compiled to css.
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PSA: Rust web frontend with Tailwind is easy!
Nah, I used enough Tailwind to know it becomes a spaghetti mess. I stick with CSS now, and in React I use https://vanilla-extract.style, compile time CSS in TypeScript.
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What's the best option these days for CSS in JS?
Vanilla Extract is my current choice for the next greenfield project. I would also recommend checking out how and why this team integrated it with Tailwind.
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Feeling lost on grokking large libraries
I'm not trying to call a particular org or library out, because I think the ones I've been digging through (and prompted me to write this) are very high quality. It's vanilla-extract (a build-time CSS-in-JS library) and Braid Design System (built on vanilla-extract).
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Coming here from svelteland... is there a way to put CSS module inside JS?
Apart from what has been suggested, there is also https://vanilla-extract.style/.
unocss
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Tailwind CSS v4.0.0 Alpha
I wish tailwind would support attributify like https://github.com/unocss/unocss, which is much more readable for complex layouts:
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- UnoCSS — an Instant On-Demand Atomic CSS Engine
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Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit
I feel the same about people praising Tailwind.
Tailwind (and similar, I tend to use https://unocss.dev/) is not good for your frontend architecture BUT they allow you to be so fast, that it negates the benefits.
For a job well done, I'd follow the principles of https://maintainablecss.com/
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What do you think we can do better to improve Vue position in the frontend space as a dominant UI framework?
I think UnoCss is may be better than Tailwind already and has a good Vue integration https://unocss.dev/
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~~New~~ Old way to write CSS
The most popular tools that implement this approach are: Tailwind, WindiCSS, UnoCSS.
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Which is best for DX and efficiency, TailwindCSS, UnoCSS, PandaCSS, or the new MasterCSS
- UnoCSS: https://unocss.dev/
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A design system for the federal government
haha, fair point. Still, I'm on the fence about how utility components are namespaced in USWDS. Perhaps giving users the flexibility to define the namespace might work better? One thing that bugs me is the absence of class-sorting like we have in TailwindCSS. Plus, there are some gaps I've noticed in USWDS. The naming, especially when comparing "padding-x-2" and "p-x-2", can be really annoying when switching around, maybe that could also be an option for the developer or project. Similar to the ideas antfu has on uno.css https://unocss.dev/ ♥
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Modern CSS Framework or Library for Static Websites?
UnoCSS is a popular option
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Vrite Editor: Open-Source WYSIWYG Markdown Editor
UnoCSS — for styling with Tailwind-like atomic CSS;
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Why I Switched From Neovim to VSCode
Some exceptional libraries and frameworks only support VSCode, which you could argue is a bad thing, but it makes sense, VSCode is the most popular code editor after all. For example UnoCSS only has a VSCode extension, and it's my favourite way to write CSS. Astro has a LSP but I've found that the experience in VSCode is much better than in Neovim.
What are some alternatives?
stitches - [Not Actively Maintained] CSS-in-JS with near-zero runtime, SSR, multi-variant support, and a best-in-class developer experience.
Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
panda - 🐼 Universal, Type-Safe, CSS-in-JS Framework for Product Teams ⚡️
windicss - Next generation utility-first CSS framework.
styled-components - Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress 💅
tail-kit - Tail-kit is a free and open source components and templates kit fully coded with Tailwind css 3.0.
unplugin-vue-components - 📲 On-demand components auto importing for Vue
shadcn/ui - Beautifully designed components that you can copy and paste into your apps. Accessible. Customizable. Open Source.
Quasar Framework - Quasar Framework - Build high-performance VueJS user interfaces in record time
linaria - Zero-runtime CSS in JS library
pico - Minimal CSS Framework for semantic HTML