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by throwasehasdwi 3287 days ago
Separating CSS always seemed stupid to me, I was so happy when it finally became "best practice" to have inline styles within isolated components. HTML is the markup and as far as I'm concerned the styling is part of that markup.

I don't understand how anyone ever thought CSS's style inheritance was a good idea. I don't mind HTML and even JS these days but CSS really needs to be sent straight back to hell where it came from.
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drderidder 3287 days ago
One word: re-usability.
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throwasehasdwi 3287 days ago
the components should be reusable, not the styles on them.

Besides global font settings CSS nowadays is mostly used for positioning and isn't reusable.

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drderidder 3281 days ago
For components, bundling the CSS makes sense. For other use cases external CSS resources with inheritance are very beneficial.See for example Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS or any modern CSS framework for lots of examples.
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joncampbelldev 3287 days ago
reusing css is a great idea for websites, react and Vue are most commonly used for web app where the atomic unit of reusability is the component.
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