Interesting choice of thumbnail; Mads Mikkelsen and Kim Bodnia from the movie Pusher (1996).
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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I'm honestly not necessarily a BEM fan as class names become literally huge if you don't rely a bit on nested elements (targeting nested classes is not very BEMmy - but SASS makes it so convenient). But haven't found a naming convention or "framework" that does the job better. BEM also doesn't address how you should organize the style library for maintainability. I just use my own simplified structure based on ITCSS now.
I just wish that someone could make a methodology or an architecture of building style libraries that felt obvious and was more plug-and-play, I hate that I feel like have to revisit the style library organization and naming convention for each new project to reevaluate if it makes sense for the scope of the project.
Then again, I work as a fullstack dev in a small team of more backend-focused fullstack devs, so I don't do frontend as often as I'd like and don't really have anyone to discuss these issues with.
I do agree.
Given that naming the element only and selecting for the hierarchy gives you completely equivalent functionality, with completely equivalent selectors, I do prefer the option that keeps the names more generic.
BEM always looked like a hack to increase the CSS selection performance, and not something that adds architectural value. And well, we don't need hacks of that level anymore, browsers are well optimized nowadays.
Have you worked with Bootstrap at all?
Very little (and long ago). We usually use a frontend stack of Angular and PrimeNG for our projects.
Nesting is now in native CSS, so it's even easier
My approach for variants is to use attribute selectors. You don't get massive class names and it becomes more obvious what things are doing. Discover ability gets hurt a bit, but that was never BEMs strength either
Downvoted for using an acronym in the title.