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MaintainableCSS - an approach to writing modular, scalable and of course, maintainable CSS(maintainablecss.com)

over 7 years ago from Adam Silver, Interaction designer focused on inclusive design and design systems

  • Dominik PoradaDominik Porada, over 7 years ago

    Clearly, the author of that resource has never worked with large apps—how is that scalable?

    7 points
    • David ÖhlinDavid Öhlin, over 7 years ago (edited over 7 years ago )

      This is more or less the opposite of how I think you should write css.

      EDIT: I just realized this seems like a dick comment and I'm sorry, I'll try to expand when I get off work.

      7 points
      • Terry OTerry O, over 7 years ago

        Agreed. The more I think about it, the crazier it sounds. If anything, it goes against what it is trying to solve.

        2 points
      • Hamish TaplinHamish Taplin, over 7 years ago

        Same here. There's no evidence for any of this and most of the reasoning seems to be based around vague concepts like "semantics" and "bloat".

        Nice to see an opposing point of view but I'm not convinced by any of the arguments presented in the "semantics" and "reuse" chapters.

        2 points
    • Terry OTerry O, over 7 years ago

      I agree this is overly dogmatic, I think there's a happy medium here (in my experience at least) where you have objects as well as utility classes for common, repeatable styles e.g. something like Harry Roberts' ITCSS.

      2 points
      • Hamish TaplinHamish Taplin, over 7 years ago

        I've started using pure utility classes a lot recently (with responsive suffixes eg @m) and find this a really nice way to express simple bits of layout, type and whitespace.

        I don't understand this at all:

        If you have utility non-semantic classes that describe the look then when you edit one of these classes, they will propogate to every single element with that class

        That's the whole point of utility classes, they follow the single responsibility principle and you would be incredibly unlikely to edit them.

        5 points