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You made it looks easy to do 😅🤣!

I have already copy & past some SCSS into my projects, but I didn't fully understand the importance of it. After seeing this handy @extend in action, I am going to try to understand the SCSS codes.

Keep going!

peerreynders • Mar 27 '22

This advice suggests that @extend can exhibit surprising behaviour as it will indiscriminately extend every instance of a matching selector that it finds.

In this particular case it doesn't matter as the class selector .orbit only appears once—so the compiled CSS looks like:

.orbit, .react:before, .react:after, .react {
  height: 6.25rem;
  width: 20rem;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: 0.625rem solid #61DAFB;
}

To control @extend better a placeholder selector can be bound to instead because placeholders only ever appear in one place:

%orbit {
  height: 6.25rem;
  width: 20rem;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: 0.625rem solid #61DAFB;
}

.react {
  @extend %orbit;
  background: radial-gradient(circle, #61DAFB 15%, transparent 15%);
  position: relative;
  animation: rotate 15s infinite linear;
  &:before,
  &:after {
    content: "";
    @extend %orbit;
    position: absolute;
    left: -0.625rem;
    top: -0.625rem;
  }
  &:before {
    transform: rotate(60deg)
  }
  &:after {
    transform: rotate(120deg)
  }
}

Now the compiled CSS looks like this:

.react:before, .react:after, .react {
  height: 6.25rem;
  width: 20rem;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: 0.625rem solid #61DAFB;
}

Notice how the placeholder selector is gone.

Alternately a @mixin could also be used:

@mixin orbit() {
  height: 6.25rem;
  width: 20rem;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: 0.625rem solid #61DAFB;
}

.react {
  @include orbit();
  background: radial-gradient(circle, #61DAFB 15%, transparent 15%);
  position: relative;
  animation: rotate 15s infinite linear;
  &:before,
  &:after {
    content: "";
    @include orbit();
    position: absolute;
    left: -0.625rem;
    top: -0.625rem;
  }
  &:before {
    transform: rotate(60deg)
  }
  &:after {
    transform: rotate(120deg)
  }
}