CSS Architecture and the Three Pillars of Maintainable CSS

If you have ever inherited bad CSS with the obligation of maintaining it, you might have felt some empathy towards others who would maintain your code in the future. In extreme cases, developers have no other choice, but to completely rewrite the CSS of an application. These extreme cases occur when each patch introduces multiple unwanted side-effects. Once you get to this point, your stylesheets become unmaintainable.

You can only avoid giving your future self a checkmate by making architecturally solid decisions now. This is why it is important to learn the ins and outs of building a maintainable CSS architecture in practice.

If you don’t want to be the person passing on bad code, you may wonder how you can create maintainable CSS from scratch. Where would you start? Let’s look at the elements of CSS architecture that are worth considering when it comes to building your perfect project.

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