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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Lightning CSS

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about what Lightning CSS is, how it works, and why you should consider using it in your projects. Show Notes 00:25:22 Welcome 01:04:11 Overview of Lightning CSS Lightning CSS Devon Govett (@devongovett) Parcel 04:56:11 What’s in Lightning CSS? OKLCH 21:39:11 CSS Layers 24:57:14 Text decoration 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 Wes Bos on Bluesky Scott on Bluesky Syntax on Bluesky

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Monday! Monday! Monday! Open wide dev fans! Get ready to stuff your face with

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JavaScript CSS! Node modules! Barbecue tips! Get workflow! Break dancing! Soft skills!

0:12.0

Web development! The hastiest! The Carrazius! The tastiest! Web development

0:17.0

treats! Coming in hot! Here is Wes Barakuda! Boss and Scott El Torro Lugo!

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Tolinsky!

0:26.0

Welcome to Zintax on this Monday hasty treat! We're going to be talking about lightning CSS,

0:34.0

which if you haven't heard of it, it's a great new project and it's been around for maybe

0:38.0

about a year and a bit from the creator of parcel. So we're going to be talking

0:43.0

all about what lightning CSS is, why you should be paying attention to it,

0:47.0

and if you should give it a try. My name is Scott Tolinsky. I'm a developer

0:51.0

from Denver, and with me, as always, is Wes Boss. Wes, what's up, my man? Hey,

0:57.0

not too much! Pretty stoked to talk about lightning CSS. I think a new tool that a lot

1:03.0

of us are going to be using, so we're going to explain all about what it is today

1:07.0

and why you might want to opt into using this. So, yeah, let's get started. The

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lightning CSS is lightningcss.dev, and their tagline is an extremely fast CSS

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parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier. Basically, it's replacing a lot of

1:27.0

your tool chain around CSS if you have one. If you're the type person who's using

1:32.0

SAS, or maybe post CSS, or any of these things, because it's transforming your CSS,

1:38.0

it's giving you extra features, it's giving you access to future CSS,

1:44.0

like a post CSS type of deal as well. But it's basically, you could think

1:50.0

about it as the thing to work with your CSS to get it production, ready, and

1:56.0

compatible, essentially. Yeah, you can sort of think of the lightning CSS

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