Why SMACSS

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The "Why SMACSS" Lesson is part of the full, Scalable Modular Architecture for CSS (SMACSS) course featured in this preview video. Here's what you'd learn in this lesson:

While Jonathan was at Yahoo, he started thinking about how you make CSS scalable. This lead to him to writing SMACSS. SMACSS provides categorization and naming conventions to CSS. This allows it to decouple from HTML and is better for state-based designs.