In defense of functional CSS

Re:In defense of functional CSS by yakshaving_jgt on Thursday September 27, 2018 @10:49AM (#18085030)

Open up Vim, and do a global find and replace with a simple regex. That's 100 or even 10,000 button changes in a minute.

That's not really related to "functional CSS" though.

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Re:In defense of functional CSS by darekkay on Thursday September 27, 2018 @11:13AM (#18085261)

Your simple regex will take you 1-2 additional minutes to deal with prettified code like this:

  <button
    href=".."
    class="...."
  >Button</button>

And when you start fixing more complex components and HTML edge cases, you will have a lot of fun [0]. This is fine for legacy code. But I don't want to deal with this in modern projects, if I can just change a single file and be sure all components are updated. As you said, this is not related to functional CSS, but it solves many disvantages of it.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...

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