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Web Directions Hover '22 session spotlight–Are CSS Pre-Processors Becoming Obsolete? - Web Directions

Web Directions Hover ’22 session spotlight–Are CSS Pre-Processors Becoming Obsolete?

John Allsopp

14th March, 2022

@johnallsopp

Are CSS Pre-Processors Becoming Obsolete?

CSS pre-processors have been one of the most useful tools in our web development toolbox for decades.

But with the advent of CSS “variables”, native nesting, and other great new specs, many of their use-cases seem to have been taken over by the language itself.

In this talk we will dive into the similarities and differences between the features introduced by CSS pre-processors and those of the newer CSS specs, when to use each, and how they can get along

Facundo Corradini

Facundo is a front-end developer, author, and speaker from Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Passionate about CSS, accessibility, and JS. Currently working on “just a small fix”, as he’s been doing for the last 15 years.

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