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Scott and Wes dive into CSS BEM — What is it? Why do you need it? How does it work?

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The Show Notes!

01:00

  • Minisode! What do you think?
  • Meijer is the best!

05:00

  • What is CSS BEM?
  • What problems does CSS BEM solve?
  • Block, Element, Modifier!

8:00

  • What about really long class names?

9:00

  • Use with Sass/Stylus

12:00

  • What about styled components?!

15:00

  • Listener Question: Do / should you use Dropbox for a website with Git and node_modules?

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