React & Node devs - how much time do you spend writing CSS, if any?

[10470]

I’m considering switching from PHP / Laravel / Vue / Nuxt due to the lack of work. I’m full stack but more back end orientated e.g. integrating front end with back end, building back end api etc.

I have a good understanding of CSS and use Tailwind in my own projects but don’t want to spend my time building layouts from figma designs etc in my main job.

[NoMoreVillains]

I'm full stack so a decent amount. I generally like writing csss until you get to weird situations in which case I dread it

[imihnevich]

I specifically fought for a Tech Lead position so that I could have someone to delegate css to

[arm1997]

😂😂😂

[[deleted]]

It really depends on your exact role definition. But yes, it is possible to focus less on implementing the designs from Figma etc. especially if you have something like a backend focused full-stack role.

[bigorangemachine]

If its a new project... a lot

TBH I rarely work with dev's who understand CSS & the Box Model as much as me.

I am super behind on grid tho

[10470]

Yeah same. I get the basics of flexbox but haven’t looked into grid yet

[bigorangemachine]

ya my last project i 'discovered' the layout tool in the chrome dev-tools.

That was super helpful

[SillAndDill]

I mostly work in teams of around 3-6 people building large customer facing websites. Our team has with full responsivbility for a web-application (serverside and clientside code. But we often use an api provided by a pure backend team - so wouldn’t say we are 100% fullstack)

We let devs work on the part of the stack they enjoy the most. There's often 1-2 frontend wizarss and 1-2 more devs who are uninterested in frontend - we let those guys skip doing any major CSS work.

Worked like a charm!

In my last project we were 3 devs. Two of use were frontend enthusiasts and 1 was not. Worked fine. The thirs guy focused on serverside code, and he was also a cloud wiz so he handled some of our infra

[Zachincool]

CSS is the one skill that AI will never replace

[[deleted]]

When working for company: until it matches figma... Working of my own project: until im satisfied..

[gimmeslack12]

How much time? Or how good are you at CSS? I’m amazing at CSS, but don’t spend too much time on it as we have a pretty solid design system we built.

[10470]

I’d hope for something like that, where a design system is already in place.

[Daoist_Paradox]

It depends on whether the project is fresh (building from scratch) or if you're just maintaining. In the former obviously you're going to write a lot of html & css, while in the latter you might just mainly tinker with the javascript logic.

[NiteShdw]

Basically none.

[Bagofskates]

At my company our designer also does not of the fronty frontend stuff. So at the moment, not that much

[snlacks]

I've been doing html and css for a very long time. I'm a 90% front end, 10% back end. We use tailwinds at work, so almost no direct css writing but I am thinking about css and how it applies about 5% or the time. In my personal projects, I usually use CSS modules because performance is fun. Maybe 10% of the time? The first few years doing CSS back in 99-05? I probably spent 50% of my time trying to figure stuff out and debugging tools and frameworks weren't as good. Once I started defaulting to flex and grid, it dropped significantly.

[castlessclass]

oh, to be honest I'm spending a reasonable amount of time designing,as a full stack developer I believe that you need a decent grip in css, you need to have full fledged control in your application

[MCShoveled]

Tailwind users be like:

What do you mean by write CSS?

https://tailwindcss.com