Organizing Design System Component Patterns With CSS Cascade Layers

I enjoy organizing code and find cascade layers a fantastic way to organize code explicitly as the cascade looks at it. The neat part is, that as much as it helps with "top-level" organization, cascade layers can be nested, which allows us to author more precise styles based on the cascade and inheritance.

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