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Opened an issue to Mastodon Bird UI: Major rewrite: migrate to SCSS + Parcel for Mastodon's new CSS custom properties system github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mas…

I don't have time to work on this for a while, but I already have a plan.

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Major rewrite: migrate to SCSS + Parcel for Mastodon's new CSS custom properties system

Background Mastodon is undergoing a major theming overhaul in PR #36640, introducing a semantic theme token system using CSS custom properties. This enormous change replaces all colour-related CSS ...
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iamdtms
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Yes, SCSS features are mostly implemented in CSS, I do not use the preprocessor for a while.
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Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
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@iamdtms The only issue is modularity. As far as I know, you can't output a single CSS-only file with includes or imports.

I've been using SCSS daily in other projects since 2012, but for Mastodon Bird UI, I wanted to keep it CSS-only for as long as possible since it serves the regular non-technical admins via the Custom CSS option. However, it's getting too chaotic to maintain this way now.

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Daniel Schildt
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Good planning overall. Hopefully new structure will make things a lot more manageable in the future.
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Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
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@autiomaa Thanks. I hope so too. Needs quite a lot of work, planning to start it during my Christmas holiday.
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Daniel Schildt
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If you need any second set of eyes during the rewrite, I could take a look when needed. ☺️
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