Probably worth keeping an eye on Vite+ (still in “early access”). They say it’s “everything you’ve been duct-taping together” which feels actually kinda fair when you consider this has “dev, build, test, lint, format, monorepo caching & more in a single dependency.” So even if you’re using Vite anyway, perhaps you’d get to ditch Jest […]
You’ll hear people say they miss the Movable Type days. Or that Adobe should have never killed off Fireworks. Or in their heart they are still a MooTools stan. Or that their good ol’ days were Backbone and Lodash. Laying out sprites was their heyday. Table-based layout still makes the most sense to them. Every […]
After I wrote up my Basic CSS Processing Setup that used Lightning CSS, Michael Bishop responded saying he uses PostCSS for essentially the same thing, with a forked repo demonstrating. I think Michael has a good point that PostCSS has a built-in watcher which simplifies the setup nicely. And postcss-preset-env is very similar in spirit, […]
If you need a mini build process just for your CSS, Lightning CSS is a pretty good modern choice. That, plus a file watcher and live reloader offers pretty good DX.
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