#css

Most developers closely follow the framework wars. So busy with these games, that we forget to check what new features HTML, CSS, and JavaScript offer us. Native modals, dynamic viewport units, and optional chaining are just some of the features you should use already! If you stopped following Web Platform development in 2015, it's time to refresh your knowledge. I will teach you to build applications tailored to 2024 and prepare you for the new Web Platform features that will appear in the coming years.

Working on emoji-picker-react I encountered a challenge - filtering the list of 1800 emojis triggered a significant delay due to re-renders.Let's learn how I fixed this only using CSS!

Unlock the power of type-safe styling in React component packages with Vanilla Extract CSS. Learn how to effortlessly write scalable and maintainable styles, leveraging CSS-in-Typescript. Discover the seamless integration of Vanilla Extract CSS and take your React components to the next level.

CSS variables have become so sophisticated in recent years that they now enable us to do things that aren't possible with JavaScript. In this lightning talk, I'll explain how MUI's engineers are leveraging the power of CSS variables in our new React component library, Joy UI, to deliver components that automatically adapt their style and structure to the context in which they're rendered.

In this talk, Siddharth shares the challenges his team faced with optimising runtime css in js (styled-components) for performance. At GitHub, there are about 4000 React components that contain styles, Siddharth dives into the reasons for rethinking styling architecture, the challenges faced and lessons learned by migrating a big application.

Next.js has grown in popularity over the past couple of years with features like server-side rendering, incremental static regeneration, image optimization, and more. Next.js is known as the production ready framework for React. In contrast, GraphQL is known for not just returning data for what you need with good schema design practices but also a good dev experience. In this talk, I’ll talk about how one can build an app that not just scales but also has high performance with Next.js, GraphQL and Tailwind. And Lastly, the future of CSS and Frontend development is building utilities, so CSS does not feel like an afterthought. At the end of this talk, you will learn how to go from making a sample app to a highly performant production-ready application.

Tailwind CSS, with its utility-first approach is known for speeding up the development process. Combining it with the power of React, let’s see how you can build a custom design system for your project to further speed it up, make it scalable and also easy to maintain.

Using CSS in this age of components is difficult. Many tools have been created to help us with this problem, but they all fall short in the one problem that tooling can never solve: Which component should be in charge of which styles? In this talk, we will go over strategies on how to build layouts in a composable way.

CSS + superpowers - bloat. How Stylex creates a zero-cost abstraction that gives CSS superpowers.