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May 18, 2022 ⋅ 6 min read

BEM vs. SMACSS: Comparing CSS methodologies

Nelson Michael Nelson Michael is a frontend developer from Nigeria. When he's not meddling with CSS, he spends his time writing, sharing what he knows, and playing games.

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3 Replies to "BEM vs. SMACSS: Comparing CSS methodologies"

  1. I’m really against any naming methodologies. Modern CSS-in-JS solutions simply remove this overhead. The best conventions are the ones that are not needed!

  2. “and you can change the appearance and behavior of components to fit the context they’re placed in using modifiers.”

    This is plain wrong because BEM does not allow cascading. So one would need to add the modifier to every element. This results in an extreme overhead of both HTML class attributes and matching css selectors.

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