3 powerful CSS nesting tricks

CSS nesting is a nice developer experience improvement in general, but if we get a little more creative with how it works, we can do a little more to help organize our stylesheets than you might realize.

✅ My intro to nesting: https://youtu.be/h4Xp1QgNkhU
✅ Gradient borders: https://youtu.be/JCYo0r67koM

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⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:55 - Centering text with a max-width
04:30 - Using nesting for modifiers
06:20 - Forcing styles to fix things like stacking contexts

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