A State of CSS

The results of the 2023 State of CSS survey are in, and we're here to break it all down and uncover the most interesting nuggets and opportunities as we look ahead to the future of CSS and the web platform. But not before some spicy meta chat on open source governance and how frequent contributors are treated in light of the recent Hotwire Turbo / TypeScript debacle.

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush

Links:

• That HTML Blog (Jared)
• Radioactive Toy (Ayush)
• Turbo:
  • Remove DHH for CoC Violations - Issue #977
  • “Open Source is Not About You”
• CSS:
  • State of CSS 2023
  • Awards
• Conferences Ayush is speaking at:
  • wroclove.rb
  • Friendly.rb

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:15 Hot takes on the Hotwire Turbo draaaama…
• 9:34 "Open source is not about you" …uh… 🤨
• 15:58 The State of CSS 2023 Survey
• 20:35 Looking at feature popularity like CSS Variables
• 29:02 Major bummer alert: shadow DOM styling awareness
• 37:45 Shifting educational approach?
• 39:03 And now a look at CSS frameworks! heh heh
• 46:49 CSS-in-JS — similar trend towards more vanilla approaches
• 48:42 Props to Open Props!
• 52:06 Still bringing the Sass…
• 54:06 Writing CSS/HTML or writing JavaScript?
• 55:27 Top 3 CSS pain points
• 1:00:04 The Big Takeaway is…
• 1:03:19 Outro