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Discussion on: Paid Developer tools you can´t live without?

 
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Mazen Touati • Edited

@ ben

By overwhelming I meant it makes you hesitating or refusing to consider using it. What you see in their site is the compiled code. You can't tell if they are using it wrong or not. Most likely they have used component based approach to re-use the markup. The whole point of the website is to showcase the versatility and the power of their utility-based framework. It will make no sense if they used class names and used @apply directive which will obscure the versatility and dictate a CSS naming convention which is not the aimed goal behind the framework.

which wasn't a good idea 10 years ago [...]

Since 10 years ago a lot has been changed. Mixing presentation and markup is a real complication when using a monolithic approach. But now, you can separate the logic of your app in a small digestible and encapsulated components. Such approach wasn't easily possible 10 years ago as today there's a lot of powerful build tools that make such thing possible.

Some people even decide to mix markup + presentation + business logic in a single component when using JS frameworks like React, Angular or VueJS. Yet, they succeed to delivery a powerful and maintainable web apps.

My point is, as technology advance the decision making changes too. For example, years ago computers were limited in memory and storage that made developers very concerned about managing every single byte of memory. Now such concerns are tend to be called micro-optimization.

Myself included I still hesitate to mix the three layers in a single file. I still tend to be influenced by the old school way. However, when you mix them you're not automatically wrong. It always depends on how you do it.