In the community, everyone agrees that a revolution took place in the styling of React components in November 2014, when Christopher Chedeau gave a talk at the NationJS conference.
Also known as vjeux on the internet, Christopher works at Facebook and contributes to React. In his talk, he went through all the problems related to CSS on the scale that they were facing at Facebook. It is worth understanding all of them because some are pretty common and they will help us introduce concepts such as inline styles and locally scoped class names.
The following is a list of the issues with CSS, basically problems with CSS at scale:
- Global namespace
- Dependencies
- Dead code elimination
- Minification
- Sharing constants
- Non-deterministic resolution
- Isolation
The first well-known problem of CSS is that all the selectors are global. No matter how we organize our styles, using namespaces or a procedure such as the Block, Element, Modifier (BEM) methodology, in the end, we are always...