CSS Cascade Layers: The Specificity Solution Your Build Tool Can Automate

If you've ever added !important to a CSS rule just to override a third-party component's styles, you know the feeling. You know it's wrong. You know it'll come back to haunt you. But the alternative, writing an even more specific selector, feels just as bad. CSS specificity has been the source of countless hours of frustration in frontend development. And while conventions like BEM and methodologies like ITCSS have helped, they're all workarounds for a fundamental problem in how CSS resolves con