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Ben Frain (Enduring CSS: writing style sheets for rapidly changing, long-lived projects) on “architecting CSS for a large scale project”. My initial reaction: “Another one of those CSS best-practice articles…” And in many ways this is ground we’ve covered before. FUN, SMCSS, OOCSS, BEM – a CSS system by any name is just a bunch of design/organization patterns that the new member of your team isn’t going to understand. But for all the effort that Frain puts into trying to frame his “FUN” technique, it may be easy to lose sight of one of the most important points he makes:

As a concrete example; being able to delete an entire Sass partial (say 9KB) in six months time with impunity (in that I know what will and won’t be affected by the removal) is far more valuable to me than a 1KB saving enjoyed because I re-used or extended some vague abstracted styles.

And that is the key lesson.

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