Mark Dalgleish Chats About Vanilla Extract

Chats with Kent C. Dodds

There is a diverse range of philosophies when it comes to CSS. Settling on something that fits the needs of your team and application can be a real challenge. Mark Dalgleish, the co-creator of CSS Modules, has been working on an option that might make that choice less of a challenge!

Vanilla Extract is kind of like "CSS-modules in TypeScript", allowing you to write CSS in your TypeScript, with locally scoped variables, and generate static CSS files on runtime. If you're interested in getting a deeper look, as well hear more about design systems, CSS in JS, and CSS Modules, check out this episode!

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Homework

• Follow along with this blog post - Use CSS Variables instead of React Context
• Check out Vanilla Extract

Resources

• Vanilla Extract
• Playroom
• Braid
• A Unified Styling Language

Guest: Mark Dalgleish

• Twitter: @markdalgleish
• GitHub: @markdalgleish

Host: Kent C. Dodds

• Website: kentcdodds.com
• Twitter: @kentcdodds
• GitHub: @kentcdodds
• YouTube: Kent C. Dodds
• Epic React: epicreact.dev