Mark Dalgleish

Vanilla Extract: CSS Preprocessing in the Age of Components

Mark Dalgleish Co-creator of CSS Modules and Vanilla Extract, MelbJS organiser, Staff Front End Developer Shopify

Co-creator of CSS Modules and Vanilla Extract, MelbJS organiser, Staff Front End Developer

Vanilla Extract: CSS Preprocessing in the Age of Components

Component architectures and design systems have brought our CSS and our JavaScript code even closer together, directly leading to the sudden rise of CSS-in-JS. It seemed like a necessary consequence of this was the need to introduce more runtime code to generate our styles, but Vanilla Extract shows us what CSS-in-JS can look like when combined with the time-tested ideas behind CSS preprocessors.

In this talk we’ll examine the history behind Vanilla Extract, how TypeScript can let you write more maintainable CSS at scale, and how the world of CSS preprocessing still has plenty of room left for new ideas.

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