[GoLUG] CSS Lifeboat and Speedboat at GoLUG

[Ron / BCLUG]

Ron / BCLUG wrote on 2024-09-23 14:14:

> I've been digging into @mui (Material UI) lately for CSS.
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> Oh. My. Gawd.
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> It's amazingly powerful and beautiful.
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> It also has a rather steep learning curve.


It's been a struggle, but I'm at the point where I can confirm: I'll 
never write another CSS file again.



My design of 4 years ago was atrocious: dated and inconsistent.

My design of 2 years ago was better.

But when I brought a 2 year old CSS file into a new project, it just was 
a mess of unneeded declarations, etc.


Now all I need is occasional things like

 > marginTop: "2rem"

with some time to set up some defaults (thought MUI comes with nice 
ones), and my current project looks better than anything I've ever done.

By a country mile.


And with ReactJS and MUI combined, I can now see how Very Large™ sites 
are possible, where previously I couldn't figure out how to tackle such 
things.



So, MUI vs Tailwind would be a nice demo!