CSS @scope
Keep selector conflicts to a minimum
The new @scope
rule is here! It’s a better way to keep our component styles contained – without relying on third-party tools or extreme naming conventions.
No matter what acronym drives your selectors (BEM, OOCSS, SMACSS, ETC), loops can help keep your patterns more readable and maintainable, baking them directly into your code. We’ll take a look at what loops can do, and how to use them in the major CSS preprocessors.
Keep selector conflicts to a minimum
The new @scope
rule is here! It’s a better way to keep our component styles contained – without relying on third-party tools or extreme naming conventions.
A new proposal for importing from NPM packages in Sass
UI libraries like Vuetify and Bootstrap make it easy to extend their themes by providing Sass source files with their NPM packages. Now, Sass is requesting feedback on a simpler way to import those libraries into your Sass styles with e.g. @use "pkg:bootstrap"
.
Giving us control over the cascade
Don’t let specificity force you into strict selector conventions. Cascade Layers allow us to manage specificity without resorting to naming hacks or the !important
flag.