December 09, 2022

Learning CSS in 2023 (JS Party #255)

52 minutes

KBall interviews CSS instructor & YouTuber extraordinaire Kevin Powell in a wide ranging discussion about CSS and how to learn it - what to start with, what to ignore, and various topics in between.

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Featuring:

Kevin Powell – Website, GitHub, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Take the State of JS survey!

Kevin Powell website

Kevin’s Youtube Channel

Flexbox Froggy

Flexbox Zombies

Grid Garden

Grid Critters

Designing Intrinsic Layouts

CSS Stats

MJML (for emails)

Utopia.fyi

CSS-Tricks

Smashing Magazine

Josh Comeau

ModernCSS

SmolCSS

I am not a fan of what React has done to the web, but it’s VERY nice

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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