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Sass developers struggle to reuse selectors across media queries

In the cited Sass reports, developers wanted to share selectors across responsive contexts, but the compiler’s media-query boundary blocked `@extend`. They resorted to code gymnastics or hard-to-discover `@at-root` workarounds, making stylesheets harder to read and maintain. The reports date from 2013–14, so current demand and Sass behavior should be validated before building.

For sass/SCSS developers maintaining responsive stylesheets. Mentioned from Dec 2013 to Feb 2020 on GitHub.

5 different people described this problem in 2 separate discussions.

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  1. I already had this need, and had to do some code gymnastics to get round this limitation. This gave things ​​less flexible, and more difficult to read and maintain
    emagnier on GitHub (sass/sass)Jan 2014Has a workaround
  2. In my experience this is one of the most often requested features in Sass, both verbally among my peers and from what I see in issue queues and comment threads on the internet
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