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What was the inspiration behind creating Glamorous? What's the back story?
Hey Simon! Thanks for the question. I've been asked this a fair amount. I talk about it a bit in the intro to glamorous blogpost and I mention it in this podcast with Tyler McGinnis. I also talk about it a bit in this talk.
In short, at PayPal I was tasked with making our landing page more flexible (because it's highly experimental). One of the biggest challenges was CSS (we are using Less). When to share styles and when to diverge was a hard question (also, the age old difficult question of: "can I delete this CSS"). So I looked into several CSS-in-JS solutions and loved the APIs for styled-components and jsxstyle, but there were a few things I didn't like about each, so I built glamorous as a way to solve my problem at work in a way that I wanted. Turns out other folks kinda liked it too :)
Thanks for the question!
P.S. The basic idea of this story applies to downshift as well 🏎