
The Fallacy of 'Always Use a CSS-in-JS Solution': When Stylesheets Fight Back
Let me paint you a picture: it’s 3 AM, your React component is bleeding styles like a zombie extra from The Walking Dead, and you’re knee-deep in styled-component wrappers. Suddenly it hits you - maybe CSS-in-JS wasn’t the silver bullet promised in that Medium article with the suspiciously perfect code samples. Welcome to my world, friend. Let’s dig into when CSS deserves its seat at the grown-ups table. The JavaScript Industrial Complex Claims Another Victim I’ll never forget the day I inherited a codebase where a button component needed 17 nested ThemeProviders just to change its hover color....