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State of CSS 2024

Libraries & Tools

Despite the many capabilities unlocked by CSS's new features, developers still rely on tooling and libraries to support their workflow, at least for now.

CSS Frameworks

When it comes to CSS frameworks & UI libraries, Tailwind CSS continues to forge its own path far ahead of other, more traditional competitors.

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Which CSS frameworks do you use?

CSS-in-JS

While some of CSS-in-JS's appeal might've been made obsolete by newer CSS features such as variables, recent innovations like typed styles and build-time compilation show that the space still has a lot to offer.

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Which CSS-in-JS libraries do you use?
We asked members of the CSS community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2024 Pick: @property Being Widely Available

I would probably say the support of @property coming to Firefox this year, making this feature available-cross browser (since July) and unlocking a lot of cool stuff.
We asked members of the CSS community to share their “pick of the year”

Temani Afif

Creator of css-challenges.com

Pre-/Post-processors

Sass/SCSS is still the leader here, but it'll be interesting to see if its usage will remain stable now that many of its key features have been absorbed by CSS itself.

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Other Answers

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Which pre- or post-processors do you regularly use?

Utilities

There is no shortage of ways to format, minify, and otherwise tweak your CSS code to your liking.

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Which utilities or tools do you regularly use?
We asked members of the CSS community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2024 Pick: Temani Afif

Temani is pushing the limits of what can be done with CSS. His experiments always blow my mind!
We asked members of the CSS community to share their “pick of the year”

Josh W. Comeau

Indie Hacker and Educator

Browsers

While the big four browsers dominate this chart, Arc is slowly creeping up the browser rankings, going from 7.8% to 12% usage year over year.

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Chrome

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Safari

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Edge

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Safari iOS

1,107
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Arc

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Brave

779
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Chrome Android

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Chrome iOS

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Firefox Android

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Which browser(s) do you primarily work in during initial development?

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