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Local styling with CSS Modules

Local styling with CSS Modules

CSS is well known for being aggressively global. This very behaviour makes it difficult to scale. Style isolation and dead code elimination are only two of the many problems encountered when working with CSS on large and long-lasting codebases.

That’s why a lot of clever people came up with a lot of clever ideas to make it easier to write locally-scoped, easy-to-test, composable and scalable CSS. Among these ideas, one seems to have gained a lot of traction lately: CSS Modules.

In this talk, we will see what are CSS Modules, what they intend to solve, and how to use them. I think you’ll be surprised how little difference there is between authoring CSS Modules, and preprocessor-powered stylesheets.

Kitty Giraudel

May 20, 2016
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  1. berlin amsterdam los angeles san francisco singapore
    edenspiekermann_
    Local styling
    with CSS Modules
    @HugoGiraudel
    20 May 2016

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  2. @HugoGiraudel
    Front-end developer
    Edenspiekermann
    Berlin, Germany

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  3. Another CSS
    in JS thing?

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  4. Not about
    making CSS
    dependant on JS
    in the browser

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  5. About crafting
    a CSS pipeline
    (in JavaScript)

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  6. “CSS in JS”
    could as well be
    “CSS in Ruby”

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  7. We had CSS in
    Ruby for years
    with Sass

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  8. “CSS in JS”
    is reasonable

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  9. CSS from JS
    in the browser
    would suck

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  10. CSS Modules

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  11. Glen Maddern
    Mark Dalgleish
    Tobias Koppers

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  12. JS-powered
    CSS pipeline

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  13. Webpack
    Browserify
    JSPM
    & moar…!

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  14. Fixing (most)
    CSS flaws

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  16. “CSS isn’t broken”

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  17. Hahaha.
    Haha.
    Ha.

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  18. Global
    namespace

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  19. Dependency
    management

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  20. Dead code
    elimination

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  21. Configuration
    sharing

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  22. Well specified
    but incomplete

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  23. Fine!
    What is it?

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  24. A system where
    everything is
    local

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  25. No more
    global
    namespace

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  26. Not about
    syntax

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  27. Consider a
    title

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  30. No filename
    repetition

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  36. Not inline
    styles

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  37. Still classes

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  38. Configurable
    output

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  39. css-loader
    ?modules
    &localIdentName=

    [name]__[local]

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  41. Composition

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  42. Good ol’
    button

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  44. Okay, Sass
    first

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  48. Now, CSS
    Modules

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  54. Not like
    @extend

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  55. No selector
    merge

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  56. Not like
    @mixin

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  57. No style
    duplication

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  58. Just class
    composition

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  59. Dependency
    management

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  60. Again,
    composes

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  66. Explicit
    dependencies

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  67. Sharing
    styles

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  68. COMPOSE ALL
    THE THINGS!

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  71. Global
    classes?

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  72. :global

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  75. Shared
    values?

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  76. @value

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  79. Basically
    (local)
    variables

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  80. Explicit
    dependencies

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  81. Can be
    renamed

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  83. But, but, but…

    BEM?

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  84. Helps with
    global
    namespace

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  85. Brain power,
    consistency,
    strictness…

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  87. Not needed
    anymore!

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  88. But, but, but…

    Webpack?

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  89. postcss-
    modules

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  90. Statically
    compiled

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  92. But, but, but…

    atomic CSS?

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  93. Perfect
    candidate

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  95. Compose from
    the stylesheet

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  97. Have markup
    updated

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  99. But, but, but…

    Sass?

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  100. Not mutually
    exclusive

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  102. Sass makes
    CSS easier to
    write

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  103. CSS Modules
    make CSS easier
    to maintain

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  104. Why not both?

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  105. Let’s sum up

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  106. JS-powered
    CSS pipeline

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  107. Everything

    is local

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  108. Global
    namespace no
    more

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  109. Pluggable in
    any pipeline

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  110. Pretty rad

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  111. berlin amsterdam los angeles san francisco singapore
    edenspiekermann_
    Thank you!
    @HugoGiraudel
    20 May 2016

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