rapper formerly known as dababy

who's brian

youtu.be/9zF-3nbymP8

ah beautiful, the GIF doesn't work. it's on the itch page anyway

CSS-in-JS is tempting, and I do enjoy using Emotion at work mostly due to the ability to colocate styles with JSX code, but the idea of locking styling behind JS (unless your framework supports SSR) puts me off using it in personal stuff if I can achieve the same with Sass and CSS variables

I just wish the JS ecosystem wasn't so hellbent on abstraction just for the sake of it. State management is probably the worst offender. Redux is obscenely overcomplicated, whereas Zustand can get the job done for most needs.

Yeah. IMHO React's patterns start to make sense once you give it enough time, but it requires you to code in a very cautious and verbose way. I like that entire parts of a page, complete with their own HTML/JS/styling can just be split into reusable components.

I'm aware this makes me sound like a boomer but the commonly accepted reliance on overkill tools for the simplest things leaves me no choice