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layout: meetup
title: Saving CSS Grid Headaches with JavaScript
author: alevine
when: 2019-01-15T19:30:00-06:00
video: https://youtu.be/XOTsvU93OCk
speakers:
  - name: James Y Rauhut
    title:
    avatar: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/767017197097000960/o46faNuz_400x400.jpg
    bio: James is a front-end dev and UX designer that loves fusing both roles. He enjoys talking about design systems, progressive web apps, and that horrid CSS-in-JS. Serious contributions to the web dev community include CSS Gridish and Create React App DevOps. Not-so-serious contributions include [IsTexasBackYet.com](https://IsTexasBackYet.com).
    email:
    homepage:
    twitter: seejamescode
    github: seejamescode
    linkedin:
sponsor: magento
venue: spredfast
after: lavaca
organizers:
  - lingram
  - astacy
---

Grid frameworks in CSS help keep a product, department, or even a whole company visually aligned. However, they can be a struggle to maintain while satisfying different experiences’ needs. Thankfully, scripting languages have a knack for keeping everything sane. By creating a new open-source package that generates grid frameworks, we will cover:

* Abstracting design specs for reusable code
* Performance vs CSS browser support
* The flexibility of isomorphic JavaScript packages
