What if you could lay out UI without CSS? Meet Pretext
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CSS was designed for documents, not dynamic UIs, which is why chat bubbles overflow, virtualized lists miscalculate heights, and scrollbars lie. Pretext, a new 5KB TypeScript library by React core alumni Cheng Lou, solves this by measuring text dimensions before the DOM renders anything — using Canvas and Unicode-aware line-breaking — enabling pixel-perfect virtualization, shrinkwrap bubbles, and 60fps canvas readers.
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