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REACT INLINE STYLES and the FUTURE OF CSS

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Hey! @alexlande

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Seattle “Kerry Park, Start of Spring 1” by C.M. Keiner is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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Seattle “Seattle Thunderstorm 1” by C.M. Keiner is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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REACT INLINE STYLES and the FUTURE OF CSS

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NO FUTURE

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I’m an architect, honest!

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You keep using that word…

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Not everybody cares about CSS

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you don’t have to care Good architecture means

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STYLE GUIDE

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NAMING CONVENTIONS .Sidebar {} .Sidebar.isExpanded {} .Sidebar__section {} .Btn {} .Btn--primary {} .Btn--round {}

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AUTHORING GUIDELINES

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CODE REVIEW

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EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT!

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EVERYTHING WAS TERRIBLE!

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SPECIFICITY HELL

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SPECIFICITY HELL

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SPECIFICITY HELL

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SPECIFICITY HELL

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“Not bad” is not great.

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CoolCorp MENU a { color: orange; }

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CoolCorp MENU .header a { color: white; }

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CoolCorp MENU SOME OPTIONS Pages

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CoolCorp MENU SOME OPTIONS Pages

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CoolCorp MENU SOME OPTIONS Pages .flyout a { color: orange; }

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CoolCorp MENU SOME OPTIONS Pages LOG IN .button { color: white; }

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CoolCorp MENU SOME OPTIONS Pages LOG IN

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CoolCorp MENU SOME OPTIONS Pages LOG IN .flyout .button { color: white; }

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CoolCorp MENU SOME OPTIONS Pages LOG IN .button { color: white !important; }

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CoolCorp MENU SOME OPTIONS Pages LOG IN .header .flyout .button { color: white; }

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CoolCorp MENU BUTTON BUTTON BUTTON BUTTON BUTTON BUTTON BUTTON BUTTON BUTTON BUTTON BUTTON BUTTON

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SOURCE ORDER
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CoolCorp MENU SOME OPTIONS Pages .header a { color: white; } .flyout a { color: orange; } LOG IN

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CoolCorp MENU SOME OPTIONS Pages .flyout a { color: orange; } .header a { color: white; } LOG IN

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NAMING COLLISIONS

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It’s all globular

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Just give me my fix!

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.product-page .sidebar .btn {…}

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DEAD CODE

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DEAD CODE FOREVER

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IMPOSSIBLE TO CHANGE

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Let’s have a show of hands

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✴ Specificity ✴ Source Order ✴ Naming ✴ Dead Code ✴ Modification

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BEM SMACSS OOCSS UNCSS IMMUTABLE STYLES ???

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A challenger appears…

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REACT

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aficionado: one with afición

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Components all the way down

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Click me!

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Click me!

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Hey!

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Content!

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A BETTER TOMORROW

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AN INTERESTING STORY

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Christopher “vjeux” Chedeau React: CSS in JS

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Plan • Problems with CSS at scale 1. Global Namespace 2. Dependencies 3. Dead Code Elimination 4. Minification 5. Sharing Constants 6. Non-deterministic Resolution 7. Isolation

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✴ Specificity ✴ Source Order ✴ Naming ✴ Dead Code ✴ Modification 1. Global Namespace 2. Dependencies 3. Dead Code Elimination 4. Minification 5. Sharing Constants 6. Non-deterministic Resolution 7. Isolation

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JS Everything!

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COLIN HAS A QUESTION @colinmegill

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Have you seen this talk? It’s pretty cool! I don’t know how practical it is. So, what’s missing?

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WE CALLED IT RADIUM

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So how does it work, then?

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JSX

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var styles = { color: "#333" }

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No Selectors, No Semicolons, No Mercy

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REGISTER styles = { background: "green", padding: "1rem" }

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REGISTER Register

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VARIABLES

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NO SPECIFICITY

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SOURCE ORDER INDEPENDENCE

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ONE LESS HARD PROBLEM NAMING

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DEAD CODE ELIMINATION

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MODIFY AND MAINTAIN

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✴ Specificity ✴ Source Order ✴ Naming ✴ Dead Code ✴ Modification

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OK

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Back to Radium

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styles = { color: "green", ":hover": { color: "blue" } } BROWSER STATES

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BROWSER STATES onMouseEnter() { this.setState({ hover: true }); }

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MEDIA QUERIES styles = { width: 50%, "@media (min-width: 600px)": { width: 75% } }

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MEDIA QUERIES var mql = window.matchMedia( "min-width: 600px" ); mql.addListener(updateMediaState);

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style={[ styles.base, styles[this.props.kind], this.props.block && styles.block ]} STYLE ARRAYS

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class="btn btn-primary btn-block" STYLE ARRAYS

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Let’s make a button

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BUTTON TIME styles = { background: "green", display: "block", padding: "1rem" }

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BUTTON TIME ":hover": { background: "blue" }

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BUTTON TIME "@media (min-width: 400px)": { display: "inline-block" }

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BUTTON TIME style={[ styles.base, styles[this.props.kind], this.props.block && styles.block ]}

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BUTTON TIME

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BUTTON TIME

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BUTTON TIME

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So, what’s the problem?

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Well…

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FAKING IT

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Enhance

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Don’t panic

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REACT ONLY

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Virtual— what now?

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DIFFING

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DIFFING
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    DIFFING
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    Still…

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    NO FUTURE

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    STRANGE EXPERIMENTS IN USERLAND!

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    CSS MODULES

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    // blog-post.css .title { font-size: 2rem; } // blog-post.js var styles = require("./blog-post.css");

    // Rendered HTML

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    ✴ Specificity ✴ Source Order ✴ Naming ✴ Dead Code ✴ Modification

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    CSS MODULE COMPOSITION

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    // blog-post.css .normal { font-size: 2rem; } .highlight { composes: normal; color: orange; } // blog-post.js var styles = require("./blog-post.css");

    // Rendered HTML

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    @EXTEND WOES

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    .btn, .btn-primary, .btn-secondary, .btn-tertiary, .btn-inverse, .sidebar-btn, .sidebar-btn-primary, .sidebar-btn-secondary, .sidebar-btn-tertiary, .sidebar-btn-inverse { color: #333; }

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    .btn { color: #333; } .btn-primary { /* other styles */ } .sidebar-btn { /* other styles */ }

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    No content

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    TOOLS, NOT RULES - SOMEONE “

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    BETTER UX BETTER DX =

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    I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE SPEC

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    WEB COMPONENTS

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    button { background: blue; font-family: Chaparral; } Normal DOM Normal DOM

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    button { background: orange; font-family: Verlag; } Shadow DOM! Normal DOM SHADOW DOM!

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    @philwalton GO SEE PHIL

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    RUNTIME VARIABLES

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    CUSTOM PROPERTIES :root { --bg-color: green; } .btn{ background-color: var(--bg-color); }

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    @custom-media --medium (min-width: 30em); @media(--medium) { width: 50%; } CUSTOM MEDIA QUERIES

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    @custom-selector :--button button, .btn; :--button:hover { background-color: var(--hover-color); } CUSTOM SELECTORS

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    CSS EXTEND

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    .btn { padding: 1rem; } .btn-primary { @extend .btn; background-color: orange; }

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    .modal { /* modal styles */ } .panel { /* panel styles */ } @media (max-width: 599px) { .options { @extend .panel; } } @media (min-width: 600px) { .options { @extend .modal; } }

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    FINE “ - SOMEONE CSS IS

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    YOU JUST HAVE TO…

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    LET’S MAKE CSS EASY

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    @alexlande Thanks!