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I want to get through at least half of my books before I code so I have a foundation - and to force myself to read all the books I bought, but I hope to start coding maybe next week?

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KPCKevin Powell - Community

•Created by McMarty on 12/23/2024 in #front-end

Tips for writing clean, maintainable CSS

I do. Sorry. Reading my Smashing Book 5 and asking questions as I read. Like all people diving into coding, one question leads to another and another. So overwhelming. Hopefully if I write, good, modern CSS3 that will be enough

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KPCKevin Powell - Community

•Created by McMarty on 12/23/2024 in #front-end

Tips for writing clean, maintainable CSS

And stay away from things like SASS for now?

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KPCKevin Powell - Community

•Created by McMarty on 12/23/2024 in #front-end

Tips for writing clean, maintainable CSS

The takeaways I get from what you said above - and not having had time to watch all of the videos yet - is that if I re-learn the fundamentals of CSS, and also learn new features in CSS3 using MDN and Kevin's videos, then I should be off to a good start. And hopefully learning those new features in CSS3 will address my concerns in my OP about keeping my CSS organized, right?

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KPCKevin Powell - Community

•Created by McMarty on 12/23/2024 in #front-end

Tips for writing clean, maintainable CSS

Good to know I can keep using FF. I do like how VS Code looks, so I might try using it instead of NetBeans.

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KPCKevin Powell - Community

•Created by McMarty on 12/23/2024 in #front-end

Tips for writing clean, maintainable CSS

I was asking if I can still use Firefox and Firefox Dev Tools so that I learn the fundamentals correctly

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KPCKevin Powell - Community

•Created by McMarty on 12/23/2024 in #front-end

Tips for writing clean, maintainable CSS

I am a Mac person and hate Microsoft. In another forum a few weeks ago, I learn that Firefox is all but dead - certainly from a market share standpoint. I grew up - in web dev - using Firefox and Firefox Dev Tools. Now that Mozilla, Firefox and MDN are dying beasts - if not dead - what should I use to learn CSS and for dev tools as I code - so I can learn as you mention? I am intrigued by - what is it? - VS Code, but I really don't want to have to develop "on the dark side" using Chrome

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KPCKevin Powell - Community

•Created by McMarty on 12/23/2024 in #front-end

Tips for writing clean, maintainable CSS

So CSS layers and nesting replaces the need to use something like BEM? And you are saying Kevin has moved to that approach versus using BEM?

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KPCKevin Powell - Community

•Created by McMarty on 12/23/2024 in #front-end

Tips for writing clean, maintainable CSS

Does anyone still do that? And what are the Pro's and COn's of such an approach?

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KPCKevin Powell - Community

•Created by McMarty on 12/23/2024 in #front-end

Tips for writing clean, maintainable CSS

I recall from many years ago that this was one "approach" people took. Like maybe you would have <div class="myFavColor myFavFont myFavSize">

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KPCKevin Powell - Community

•Created by McMarty on 12/23/2024 in #front-end

Tips for writing clean, maintainable CSS

Where it appears they are AND'ing "search-form" and "search-form_theme_islands"

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KPCKevin Powell - Community

•Created by McMarty on 12/23/2024 in #front-end

Tips for writing clean, maintainable CSS

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KPCKevin Powell - Community

•Created by McMarty on 12/23/2024 in #front-end

Tips for writing clean, maintainable CSS

I'm reading about BEM right now, and one thing I see that jogs my memory is this... In one example they have this...

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KPCKevin Powell - Community

•Created by McMarty on 12/23/2024 in #front-end

Tips for writing clean, maintainable CSS

Really look forward to getting back into coding after like 8 years away!

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KPCKevin Powell - Community

•Created by McMarty on 12/23/2024 in #front-end

Tips for writing clean, maintainable CSS

Good advice. Knowing myself, I am going to read and highlight, and then start coding and re-reading as I go. RIght now I am just taking a 20,000 ft approach and trying to not make obvious learning (or doing) mistakes

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