Tried a global token system for our app and got a mutiny from the devs

I pushed to switch all our colors and spacing to a single JSON token file last month for a client in Austin. Thought it would be clean and fast, but the frontend team hated it because every tiny change needed a full rebuild and deploy. Three weeks in, I had to roll back to plain CSS variables because the token pipeline was breaking their hot reload workflow. Has anyone else had a token system backfire like that?

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holly_flores798d ago

Started just using CSS custom properties instead. Way simpler.

anthony1658d agoMost Upvoted

Yeah I saw a dev on YouTube saying the same thing. Scope issues disappear.