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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Hasty Treat - Why Do People Hate CSS?

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Technology, News, Tech News

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about why people hate CSS, some common issues, and how you can level up. Prismic - Sponsor Prismic is a Headless CMS that makes it easy to build website pages as a set of components. Break pages into sections of components using React, Vue, or whatever you like. Make corresponding Slices in Prismic. Start building pages dynamically in minutes. Get started at prismic.io/syntax. LogRocket - Sponsor LogRocket lets you replay what users do on your site, helping you reproduce bugs and fix issues faster. It’s an exception tracker, a session re-player and a performance monitor. Get 14 days free at logrocket.com/syntax. Show Notes 03:20 - Layout is hard block vs inline vs inline-block Learn what this means! Flexbox https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ Grid Avoid floats Wes’ Flexbox Course Wes’ CSS Grid Course Scott’s Modern CSS Layouts Course 07:43 - I can’t get my thing to get the right style Use a scoping system like BEM, CSS in JS, CSS Modules Don’t style via IDs Avoid !important 11:00 - My thing isn’t looking the way it’s coded Dev tools Write CSS in the browser Check class names 12:11 - I don’t know if I can delete this CSS Use tools like https://purgecss.com/ http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2010/06/25/the-media-object-saves-hundreds-of-lines-of-code/ 15:51 - Look at things holistically Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

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0:00.0

Monday Monday Monday open wide dev fans get ready to stuff your face with Javascript CSS

0:07.4

Node module barbecue tips get work flow break dancing soft skills web development the hastiest the

0:13.5

Carrazius the tastiest web development treats coming in hot. Here is West

0:19.2

Barracuda boss and Scott L. Toro. Look go to Lenski

0:25.2

Welcome to syntax in this Monday hasty treat. We're going to be talking about why people hate CSS

0:33.4

Which is a funny thing because I love CSS and it's always been one of my favorite parts of development

0:38.0

But there are very real reasons why people hate CSS many of which can be fixed and we're gonna talk about them

0:45.1

And we're going to try to help you get past some of your issues with CSS if you got them

0:49.4

My name is Scott to Lenski. I'm a developer from Denver, Colorado and with me as always is West boss

0:54.8

Hey everybody this episode is sponsored today by two awesome companies one of which is a prismic and

1:01.8

Prismic is the perfect place to host your data

1:05.5

It's a headless CMS of your dream. So check it out. This is also supported by log rocket at logrocket.com

1:12.2

Hey, West, do you want to talk about prismic and I'll talk about log rocket? I do

1:16.8

Prismic is a headless CMS. They just raised 20 million bucks to scale your content creation with slices

1:23.8

So they're doubling down on this slices thing which makes a lot of sense

1:27.5

So they're modeling their CMS if you are building a website in components

1:33.2

You got a header component or a person component or a footer component or a Twitter component

1:39.2

Then you probably have data that is associated with that specific component

1:43.8

And that's what slices is prismic doesn't awesome job at it. You just model out your editor

1:49.5

You you log in. It's a totally hosted service you log in and click click click drag and drop

1:54.2

You can make your editor and you give it to your your marketing people or whoever's run in the actual website

2:00.4

And then once the data is in there you can pull that data into

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