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Getting started with a whole new CSS language —— Master CSS

A Virtual CSS language with enhanced syntax. ~13KB

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Features

Let's have a quick overview of the groundbreaking features of Master CSS:

  • 🔥 A whole new CSS language instead of utilities/libraries.
  • 🔓 Write CSS properties, functions, selectors and even media queries directly in class="...".
  • 🧠 Automatically generate corresponding CSS rules based on class names.
  • 💖 With enhanced CSS syntax, you can build UIs with less code.
  • ⚡️ Directly use performant JIT in production. ~13KB
  • 🧬 An enhanced and structured CSS syntax for class names.
  • 🌈 A forerunner to syntax highlighting for class names.
  • Hybrid Rendering that allows you to pre-generate CSS from HTML on the server side, and then continue to use JIT on the client side.
  • Group Styles that allows you to extract the same selectors and media query styles and make it short.
  • Reactive Styles that allows you to style an element based on parent/sibling state.

To learn more, check out the documentation.

Why Master CSS

A brief introduction starts by giving you an understanding of markup-driven CSS.

😐 Traditional

<style>
    .home-section {
        background-color: blue;
        padding: 2rem;
        text-align: center;
    }

    .home-section:hover {
        background-color: red;
    }

    @media (min-width: 1024px) {
        .home-section {
            padding: 3rem;
        }
    }
</style>

<section class="home-section">...</section>
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🤩 Now, refactor it with a whole new CSS language to make it easier. ↓ 86% code

<section class="bg:blue bg:red:hover p:32 p:48@md text:center">...</section>
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To learn more, check out the Why Master CSS documentation.

Quick Start

This is a quick start guide, check out the full setup guide to integrate with your build tools and frameworks.

npm install @master/css
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import '@master/css';
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or use a CDN

<script src="https://cdn.master.co/css"></script>
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Now, start styling HTML with Master CSS. 🎉

<h1 class="font:40 font:heavy italic m:50 text:center">Hello World</h1>
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To learn more, check out the Syntax tutorial documentation.

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Inspiration

Some of our core concepts and designs are inspired by these giants.

  • Language - Master is a language, but it was originally inspired by ACSS's concept of atomic classes.
  • Virtual CSS - Difference algorithms, virtual models, etc. are inspired by Virtual DOM.

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artydev

Thank you very much Aaron.
I am beginning a serie on DEV TO :-)
Regards