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Raul Contreras • Edited

You say old, that's what it is nowadays, an old rusty way of doing styling, it's just to hard for the masses to digest the new approach that's actually taking shape... style components and properties, using the same language, instead of trying to keep alive that crazy tech from the past.

PD. I hate CSS, its just ugly and messy, and dificult to visualize on your head separated from the structure

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Adnan Babakan (he/him)

Well. Actually, CSS is really good. My aim in this article was telling that CSS is going to run in the background for so long, but what developers are going to use on the surface are other tools like SASS or React Styles. I suggest you start liking CSS. It is pretty awesome!

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Raul Contreras • Edited

I agree with css being a low level, powerful, ultimate, but last resource to do styling. Today's component frameworks like React has change the way you build user interfaces, and plain css or scss with post processors are not the best match for components. There are new and better ways like combining the power of utility classes with all the benefits you gain with css-in-js. A tool like twing.macro allow you to perfectly mix the beautiful tailwindcss utility classes, with styled-components, emotion, or goober. With these you can open a whole new means to style fast and efficiently.

My point is, in my projects I always try to write as few plain, repetitive css as posible, I really prefer using tailwindcss paired with css-in-js paradigm that allows me to organize much better and choose the best alternative for each case.