The evolution of practices described in this article is followed up to about ten yeas ago... and then stops, followed by Tailwind. Where is consideration of web components with shadow DOM, which solve the CSS encapsulation problem, the naming problem, and the dead code problem? Where is treatment of CSS variables that pierce the shadow DOM and allow global theming of such components? They are the next step in the evolution of scalable CSS, and yet they are noticeably absent from the discussion.
The evolution of practices described in this article is followed up to about ten yeas ago... and then stops, followed by Tailwind. Where is consideration of web components with shadow DOM, which solve the CSS encapsulation problem, the naming problem, and the dead code problem? Where is treatment of CSS variables that pierce the shadow DOM and allow global theming of such components? They are the next step in the evolution of scalable CSS, and yet they are noticeably absent from the discussion.