Chapter 2. Where We Are

As I mentioned in Chapter 1, web designers and developers are an ever-resourceful bunch. Faced with spending a lot of time learning how to tame floats and coming up with other methods to enable complex web and application layouts, the community developed tools to help ease the way. These tools range from a raft of varying “best practices” in CSS architecture to pre- and postprocessors. They also extend to frameworks, and to the recent interest in design systems and pattern libraries, and working with reusable components rather than with finished pages.

In addition to a growing reliance on tooling, we are learning more about the implications ...

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