Why is Facebook’s HTML + CSS Such a Mess?

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about why Threads, Instagram, and all things Facebook have what seems like really messy HTML and CSS?

Show Notes

• 00:10 Welcome

• Scott on Threads

• Wes on Threads

• 00:35 Threads has got divs

• 02:42 Tight scoping

• 09:44 Avoids specificity

• 10:37 Dealing with ad blockers and scraping

• 15:45 Divs are free, what's the big deal?

• 20:19 Facebook is tracking everything

• 27:57 React Native

• Stylex: A Contributor’s Story with Hammad Khalid

• Meta Open Source

• Tech stack rebuild for a new Facebook.com - Engineering at Meta

• RF21 – Naman Goel – Rethinking CSS - Introducing Stylex

• @stylexjs/stylex - npm

• Facebook CSS-in-JS Solution Stylex Introduced at React Finland 2021

• Boosts - Arc Boosts

• /uses

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• Scott: Sentry
• Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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