From CSS madness to CSS Hooks

The limited capabilities of inline styles have frustrated web developers for decades, forcing us to choose between unmaintainable architecture and complex workarounds. CSS Variables offer a solution.

In recent years, frontend developers have questioned whether traditional CSS "best practices" are a good fit for component-based architecture (like React). Along the way, we rediscovered inline styles, using brute-force workarounds like CSS-in-JS and Atomic CSS to overcome their technical limitations around hover effects, responsive design, etc. CSS Hooks offers a dramatically simpler browser-native solution built upon the programmability of CSS Variables.