Organizing Design System Component Patterns With CSS Cascade Layers
February 12, 2025
I’m trying to come up with ways to make components more customizable, more efficient, and easier to use and understand, and I want to describe a pattern I’ve been leaning into using CSS Cascade Layers.
Source: Organizing Design System Component Patterns With CSS Cascade Layers | CSS-Tricks
CSS Cascade Layers have been widely supported for quite some time (essentially since early 2022, so well and truly baseline technology).
At Conffab we covered them at Hover in 2022 and then at Web Directions Summit later that year.
But they are quite a lot to get your head around–a completely new way of architecting our CSS. Here Ryan Trimble shows a case study of making components more manageable with cascade layers.
