Web Components and the Future of CSS with Philip Walton

CSS has always been one of the hardest parts of any codebase to maintain. In CSS, everything is global, and even the tiniest change runs the risk of breaking a completely unrelated feature. Methodologies like BEM, OOCSS, and SMACSS have helped bring some much needed sanity, but they’re largely just filling gaps that should be native to the platform.

With Web Components, we finally have the tools needed to write truly modular CSS. They provide real inheritance, sane dependency management, and two-way style encapsulation. Come and hear how Web Components will change CSS best practices for the better.

About Philip Walton

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Philip Walton (@philwalton (https://twitter.com/@philwalton)) is an engineer on the developer relations team at Google. Prior to this, he led the front-end team at Appfolio, where he primarily worked on building tools and frameworks to help engineers at any level of the stack be successful contributing to the front-end.

Event Schedule:

• 5:00 p.m. Doors open, eat and drink (food catered by Google and wine tasting by Grant Eddie Winery)
• 6:30-6:40 Announcements
• 6:40-7:30 Philip Walton
• 7:30-8:00 Break
• 8:00-8:10 Lightning talks!
• 8:10-8:30 Q&A and Raffle!*
• 9:00 Room cleared

• You must be present at the venue to qualify for raffle prizes.

Notes:

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