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CSS sucks - that's why I made SnipCSS

tldr; SnipCSS is a design tool for developers who are sick of CSS, where other tools are built for front-end developers to fidget with and adjust their designs to make them pixel perfect.

The goal of SnipCSS is to spend as little time on front-end development/design as possible. I think this is a different use-case than other competitors. That's why other products like CSSScan feature WYSIWYG editing, and on-screen editing of properties like fonts, shadows and borders. It's a tool built for front-end devs. So even if it does do snippets (in a completely different way which doesn't honor the original design IMO), the primary goal is to scan/see what you want from another website's design and then integrate it into your own because you're a perfectionist front-end developer.

As a backend developer I'm not interested in a tool like that. I see something on the web and say "that's very similar to what I want my website. I'm taking that." I want it to look exactly the same because it's good enough, and I'll only swap out images/icons, and remove a couple things like the fonts so the widget doesn't look completely out of place when put on my site. I also want it responsive like it was on the original site, the CSS scoped to only that widget, but to still match the original styles as much as possible. Finally, I want it automatically made into a dynamic template (with repeating items) in React/Vue/Twig so then I can inject my data directly into the template.

If I have all that I don't have to do ANY design. I hate CSS so much I made something to avoid it as much as possible. That's the goal of SnipCSS and why my product is so much different than other development tools that work with CSS.

With Version 1.4.0 I'm finally getting close to that vision. I can generate Mustache templates automatically from snippets. Next up is React/Vue. Check it out if you're a developer who needs to work with CSS and doesn't like it - you might find it useful.

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on January 21, 2022