Why is does modern HTML/CSS seem so complex and convoluted? (details in comment)

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  • emotion

    👩‍🎤 CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition

  • css-in-js (e. g. emotion.sh)

  • wp-graphql-content-blocks

    Plugin that extends WPGraphQL to support querying (Gutenberg) Blocks as data

  • - WPGraphQL Content Blocks

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • wp-graphql

    :rocket: GraphQL API for WordPress

  • - WPGraphQL

  • faustjs

    Faust.js™ - The Headless WordPress Framework

  • - FaustJS (built for headless WP on NextJS w/ full site editing capabilities)

  • SearchYT-Server

    A server that allows communication between the `SearchYT` SiriShortcut and the server to web scrape YouTube for videos.

  • I have a server I open sourced a long time ago for a shortcut I made for IOS that would web scrape YouTube search results take a look at my ugly code if you’d like. I basically used google chrome dev bar to get the classes by clicking on the element

  • Gatsby

    The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.

  • the 2 i've heard the best about are strapi and GatsbyJS. i didn't work with them much since i'm kinda stuck with wordpress but both are exelent choices with first class headless support. Keep in mind that to leverage headless to its full extend you would have to build most of the frontend with nextjs or sweltkit or nuxt or what ever you want. it's gives you a REALLY clean codebase, though the generated code might look a bit like the picture in this post.

  • Strapi

    🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable and developer-first.

  • the 2 i've heard the best about are strapi and GatsbyJS. i didn't work with them much since i'm kinda stuck with wordpress but both are exelent choices with first class headless support. Keep in mind that to leverage headless to its full extend you would have to build most of the frontend with nextjs or sweltkit or nuxt or what ever you want. it's gives you a REALLY clean codebase, though the generated code might look a bit like the picture in this post.

  • InfluxDB

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  • vite

    Next generation frontend tooling. It's fast!

  • a little advice: use vite it's away more simple and fast than CRA, especially for those who have a really bad device like me.

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