alt Hacker NewsIt lets you apply styles to a single element without it messing up the whole rest of the page/site/app. i.e. it disabled the primary feature of CSS, the thing most people don't want from it.
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Why do people prefer it over CSS modules? They also solve the style containment problem, and do not require any effort to set up, or any additional library to learn?
Which means most people don’t understand the basics of what they’re working on.
I think that’s what people are talking about when they say they don’t see the benefit.
There’s already a style attribute on every html element that does exactly that, and works fine in components.
“There must be something more…?” But it turns out there’s not. Just shorthand class names to save you having to type padding-left:4px
I agree that the primary feature of CSS is what people don't want from it anymore. If you're building your app with components (web components, react, etc), those become the unit of reuse. You don't need CSS to offer an additional unit of reuse, it only complicates things at that point.