Past Informs the Present: Begin’s Approach to CSS

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  1. oocss

    Object Oriented CSS Framework

    Perhaps the most important CSS methodology to emerge during the web’s transition towards application-like websites was Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS), devised by Nicole Sullivan in 2009. Nicole’s now legendary article, ‘The Media Object Saves Hundreds of Lines of Code’, represented a fundamental rethinking on the composition of CSS rulesets and their relationship to HTML content. Instead of writing CSS styles around specific HTML content or basing styles on the location of content within the DOM, OOCSS prioritized writing reusable styling rules based on design patterns (in the case of the media object: ‘a fixed size media element (e.g. image or video) along with other variable size content (e.g. text)’). As perhaps the first instance of a CSS methodology systematically informed by a visual pattern language, OOCSS was also a critical step towards a more modular, reusable approach to writing CSS.

  2. Civic Auth

    Auth in Less Than 5 Minutes. Civic Auth comes with multiple SSO options, optional embedded wallets, and user management — all implemented with just a few lines of code. Start building today.

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  3. vanilla-extract

    Zero-runtime Stylesheets-in-TypeScript

  4. theme-ui

    Build consistent, themeable React apps based on constraint-based design principles

  5. tachyons

    Functional css for humans

  6. suit

    Style tools for UI components

    As style sheets became the responsibility of larger and larger teams, CSS’ global scope and specificity were often at odds with team dynamics. Style collisions became increasingly common, where changes introduced by one developer would inadvertently affect styles elsewhere on the website. As the old joke goes: two CSS properties walk into a bar; a bar stool in a completely different bar falls over. As these issues and the number of people experiencing them multiplied, so too did new CSS methodologies, particularly those focused on style sheet architectures. Before long, we had SMACSS, SUIT CSS, BEM, ITCSS, and more. Third party supersets of CSS also appeared during this time, such as Sass and LESS, which gave style sheet authors access to scripting features like variables and loops.

  7. styled-system

    ⬢ Style props for rapid UI development

  8. Sass

    Sass makes CSS fun!

    As style sheets became the responsibility of larger and larger teams, CSS’ global scope and specificity were often at odds with team dynamics. Style collisions became increasingly common, where changes introduced by one developer would inadvertently affect styles elsewhere on the website. As the old joke goes: two CSS properties walk into a bar; a bar stool in a completely different bar falls over. As these issues and the number of people experiencing them multiplied, so too did new CSS methodologies, particularly those focused on style sheet architectures. Before long, we had SMACSS, SUIT CSS, BEM, ITCSS, and more. Third party supersets of CSS also appeared during this time, such as Sass and LESS, which gave style sheet authors access to scripting features like variables and loops.

  9. SurveyJS

    JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor. Add the SurveyJS white-label form builder to your JavaScript app (React/Angular/Vue3). Build complex JSON forms without coding. Fully customizable, works with any backend, perfect for data-heavy apps. Learn more.

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  10. less.js

    Less. The dynamic stylesheet language.

    As style sheets became the responsibility of larger and larger teams, CSS’ global scope and specificity were often at odds with team dynamics. Style collisions became increasingly common, where changes introduced by one developer would inadvertently affect styles elsewhere on the website. As the old joke goes: two CSS properties walk into a bar; a bar stool in a completely different bar falls over. As these issues and the number of people experiencing them multiplied, so too did new CSS methodologies, particularly those focused on style sheet architectures. Before long, we had SMACSS, SUIT CSS, BEM, ITCSS, and more. Third party supersets of CSS also appeared during this time, such as Sass and LESS, which gave style sheet authors access to scripting features like variables and loops.

  11. basscss

    Low-level CSS Toolkit – the original Functional/Utility/Atomic CSS library

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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