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Mark Dalgleish Chats About Vanilla Extract

Chats with Kent C. Dodds

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The Most Committing Reason to Use a CSS and JS Library?

It was just kind of hard to convince yourselves that it was worth the extra runtime and everything else when you didn't have a severe problem with CSS modules. The most compelling reason for me is this idea of having a unified language for everything. It means like I can write unit tests for my styling logic in a way that if I was using like SAS, I would struggle to do that. If you've been writing in your styles in JavaScript and TypeScript comes along, suddenly you're writing your styles in a type safe language,. And like your editor is telling you that you're getting your styles wrong when passing them around.

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