CSS

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.

Stephanie Stimac: Use text-wrap: balance; on headings and subheadings. And use text-wrap: pretty; on paragraphs of text to get rid of orphans on the last line. Despite the Chromium-only support, these would be a good candidate for progressive enhancement. The performance impact is generally negligible but there in extreme conditions.

How often have you been frustrated because you’ve just joined a new project and can’t figure out why your styles aren’t being applied properly? Or maybe you’ve just integrated a new library, and suddenly all of your styles are being overridden. You could slap an !important declaration onto your styles and call it a day, but that […]