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> I suppose if you're throwing together some hacky admin page that 2 people are going to use in a year
I have to build a _lot_ of those across all sorts of contracts that I do.
Libraries like Pico CSS and htmx [0] let me do this incredibly rapidly, with it looking fine and working great, while keeping the maintenance burden low for the future
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I agree. That is why I actually just decided to use different css files for different themes in sakura.css [1] (it comes in at 3.8k / ~1.8k gzipped)
I also had friends who didn't want to understand CSS, and adding in media queries, variables, and dark mode support would only just confuse them even more.
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Reminds me of a framework I made 6 years ago (http://barecss.com). If this sort of thing comes back into trend I might go back and modernise it (https://github.com/longsien/BareCSS).
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That does 90% of what I need when sprinkling backend AJAX-y interactivity on a straight HTML page with a backend that sends JSON or HTML back.
For more jquery-esque fine-grained control:
I love both of these libraries.
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On a similar vein, I'm a fan of water.css for small / quick projects: https://watercss.kognise.dev/
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This is great! I've added it to this big list[0] of classless/minimal CSS frameworks (100+ frameworks) to make it easier to compare to other similar projects.
For those interested in Pico (which is already on the list), you can preview it on some boilerplate HTML here[1] or use the Javascript bookmarklet[2] to preview how it would look on any arbitrary page, which can be helpful for prototyping a new site.
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govuk-frontend
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html5-test-page
A page filled with common HTML elements to be used for testing purposes. Useful when building CSS systems for projects big and small.