Re:Show HN: A completely different way to write responsive, ...
by James0x57 on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:39PM
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Preach! I wholeheartedly agree.
The CSS file is in the repo: https://github.com/propjockey/css-media-vars/blob/master/css...
and the readme links to this in an example link tag: https://unpkg.com/css-media-vars/css-media-vars.css
NPM is for convenience. Can't expect people to jump out of the build env all at once, so providing a vanilla CSS solution as a package is a good way to start the transition. IMO /shrug
No build step should be the future of web development. The more steps that are added that require yet more tools to learn and more dependencies to maintain, the less inclusive and creative the web becomes. Hopefully we will one day be able to look back on this time period as an evil necessity.. I mean writing es6 and building to es5 is way better a lot of the time from a development perspective but on the face of it, its absurd and its why tooling gives people fatigue and turns away new promising developers for better programming languages.
I would definitely provide a way to download the css without npm first. Like big worm said, its about principalities.