Utility-first CSS is all the rage these days. Does anybody have feelings about what the next evolution of CSS (or web styling in general) will be?
What is on the horizon? Or, at least, what problems still need solving?
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I'm surprised to see only one mention of utility libraries like Tailwind. I don't think such libraries are the only way forward but it's interesting to observe how they try to solve existing programs with CSS.
I'd like to see more logic introduced to CSS. We already have that with pseudo-classes but those are pre-written. What if we could create our own logic just like in any other programming languages?
Hey, I feel this is the future of CSS
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For some situation, we have to rely svg, canvas but if css new features give us a way to make something like wave effect, clip-path (a better way) it can help us a lot.
Hopefully people actually bothering to learn it properly; instead of relying on the CSS equivalent of JQuery :D
I haven't heard methodologies like BEM and SMACSS mentioned in years. I get the appeal of Tailwind as I like using utility classes in bootstrap. Having stuff like preset padding/margin values is good for consistency. Anyone that has experience with design tokens would probably appreciate Tailwind to a certain extent. But I don't like bloating my HTML with scores of combined classes personally. CSS-in-JS is a big movement that a lot of people are adapting. I'm interested to see in what ways it could impact the way people write and use css in any case.
The quick rise and fall of BEM in particular is fascinating. I'm not sure what killed it. CSS-in-JS? Preprocessing so heavy it made no sense to structure things that way anymore? Frameworks that just broke through with no adherence to BEM? It's an odd one.
With Layers and Scope coming to CSS (hopefully soon), the only thing I feel is missing would be CSS Nesting.
I wouldn't be surprised if CSS Nesting didn't make it to interoperable implementation before Scope. I think there's far more open questions and implementation complexity to Scope than to Nesting.
Yes; nesting is really just syntax sugar (as underlined by the fact that many preprocessors have this feature without any hacks to make it work), so it could be implemented relatively quickly.
I feel in future CSS may come up with css components similar to
styled-components. We can maintain UI logic and functional logic separate.Exactly. I'm working on a design system with the UX where I work and separating design logic from business logic has a huge appeal in building the component library. It also makes extending/overriding components easy and yet explicit.
Awsome @jaeming good to here. Let me know once it come to mature state i will try it.
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HTML and CSS are relatively 'old' coding languages. However, they are still highly relevant for coders in 2022. Knowledge of HTML and CSS not only helps professional programmers, but also helps individuals in a variety of professions by giving them basic web page development knowledge.
I dream a world where the hamburger menus are all made in CSS
But you can already make hamburger menus in pure css, using the checkbox input element
I know, that's why I said "all".
Until CSS adopts the utility and feature-set of Sass, it will remain a primitive and repetitive way to style anything.
Compared to styling/layout mechanisms used e.g. in Android or iOS, you can argue that CSS often feels somewhat "low level" and unintuitive, which can largely be attributed to its origins (it was not originally designed with application development in mind) ... maybe this is totally unrealistic, but if you view CSS as "the assembly language of layout/styling" (I came across this notion in one of the other comments), then I could imagine that someday someone might invent a new "higher level" layout/styling language, which generates CSS under the hood.