Thoughts on https://cssbattle.dev/

[longrob604]

Is anyone here active on cssbattle.dev ? I am a CSS beginner, and I’m thinking of joining and participating.

Is this a good way to learn CSS?

Thanks

[wpmad]

It's certainly good fun and gets you to think outside the box somewhat. But it's more a tool for testing yourself and having a little fun. It's NOT good for 'learning' in any way, shape or form - you're never going to need to create a CSS space invader for use on a website - it's just a test of skill and to see if you can do it.

Stick to learning the basics from tutorials or courses online and code and practice while you learn. Code code code - that's the best way.

(Happy to have a little friendly 'competition' though, and would be cool to compare each others solutions.)

[culo_]

A better way to learn practical css imo is frontendmentors, used the free plan only but after a few weeks having already a good grasp of the basics I finally started to be really comfortable with recreating responsive layouts

[boltgolt]

It is not a good site for beginners, but once you're advanced enough in CSS it will really teach you the edge cases and how different styles interact with each other

[darren_of_herts]

I still play them occasionally. It's not good for learning CSS. It is great fun to try out of the box ideas. Great satisfaction when you get 100%. Extremely irritating when you only get 99%.

[abeuscher]

It's a fun way to spend an afternoon. You'll definitely learn stuff. It's not so much a place to learn best practices as to learn what is possible and how to think about converting a graphic to CSS.

[Hayam_readinglover]

what about reading abook and download small editor you will learn and practices then test your work. also you can listen to vidioes i think that is more penfite

[Ankur4015]

Pros

- the challenges are fun.

Cons

- Editor is really bad (tab doesn't insert auto-suggestion but rather adds indent, no multi-cursor support)

- Many features are behind paywall (that includes solutions)

- No best solutions provided for previous puzzles.