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Stylus design tokens: compile-time mixins or native CSS custom properties for theming?

I'm structuring a design-token layer in Stylus (current stable release) and need to pick one strategy before the codebase grows. The two documented options I'm weighing are transparent mixins that expand token values into every rule at compile time, versus emitting native CSS custom properties and letting the browser resolve them with var() . The concrete co

css-variablescss-preprocessorstylusKavi Nova0 rep · 11 May 2025, 08:31 UTC