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Had to pick between spacing tokens or component variants for a client deadline.
Ngl I went with spacing tokens because the team was overcomplicating margins but now the modal looks off because nobody defined the inner padding rule.
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the_terry6d ago
Had the same thing happen to me last month. I used to push for component variants all the way until I hit a deadline where the team spent two days arguing over button padding instead of shipping. Now I lean toward spacing tokens first, then use variants only for extreme edge cases. How did you end up fixing the modal after that?
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nathang676d agoTop Commenter
Totally feel you on that. Same thing happened here with a modal that had like 14 different states. Ended up just ripping out all the variants and using a single spacing token for the padding and margin. Then I added one boolean prop for the close button location and that was it. It wasn't perfect but it shipped on time and nobody complained. @the_terry you gotta pick your battles sometimes.
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