Build website interactions and animations visually — without writing code. Add parallax scrolling effects, mouse based motion, and multi-step animations without learning CSS and JavaScript.
glamorous is React component styling solved with an elegant (inspired) API, small footprint (<5kb gzipped), and great performance (via glamor). It has a very similar API to styled-components and uses similar tools under the hood (glamor).
Less extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions. Less runs on both the server-side (with Node.js and Rhino) or client-side (modern browsers only).
This April we have prepared for you a wonderful list of web dev resources, including some React libraries, a framework for cross-browser extensions, and a JavaScript physics engine!
Unfortunately Twitter is not ideal for providing context and longer explanation, and I thought this might be a good way to follow up. Given that, a lot of this article describes what led to our…
By adopting inline styles, we can get all of the programmatic affordances of JavaScript. This gives us the benefits of something like a CSS pre-processor (variables, mixins, and functions). It also…
Today, CSS preprocessors are a standard for web development. One of the main advantages of preprocessors is that they enable you to use variables. This helps you to avoid copying and pasting code, and it simplifies development and refactoring.
There's a ton of interest these days in 'CSS in JS'. The premise is simple: CSS operates in a global namespace, which can result in undesirable side effects, spaghetti code, and extremely difficult to maintain codebases. JavaScript used to do this, and we fixed it by encapsulating everything in modules and using tools like webpack to stitch everything together. And hey look, our JavaScript tools can handle CSS too, why don't we move all of our CSS into JavaScript and encapsulate everything by module!
CSS isn’t going anywhere. A lot of the projects choose to style documents in JavaScript for wrong reasons. This article lists common misconceptions (myths) and the existing CSS solutions to those…