Custom CSS is the Path to Inconsistent UI
summary
Claim: stop writing custom CSS at the app level and replace it with design tokens and a small set of primitive components for typography whitespace and layout. Evidence: a codebase shows ~20 different buttons from ad hoc CSS. Tools and examples: Box Flex Grid components with responsive props and spacing scale, styled-components (also JSS emotion or CSS modules), a small utility called react-stylist. Outcome: fewer accidental variants, easier reviews, built-in accessibility and consistent spacing and font sizes across the app.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 0:09Custom CSS is the path to inconsistent UI
- 0:32What's the issue?
- 2:44CSS is too powerful
- 3:25How can we fix that?
- 4:35Not all token combinations are good
- 5:34Stop writing CSS!
- 5:51Primitive components
- 7:15Find minimal number of styles to cover most of the use cases of your app or site
- 9:11Make impossible states impossible
