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We can agree decoupling is a good practice that simplifies the code and the maintainability of the project.
A common way of decoupling the code is to divide the responsibilities into different layers. A very common division is:
The real name of the CSS variables is CSS Custom Properties is a draft standard (yes, when I wrote these lines, it is on Candidate Recommendation Snapshot), but it is widely supported by modern browsers.
CSS variables allow us, like another kind of variable in another programming language, to store a value we can reuse across our document.
About 15-20 years ago, web application developers had the knowledge and the technical skills necessary to create an application: HTML, CSS, JS, PHP/Python/ASP, Web Server Management, MySQL/Postgres (both data and service management), etc.
With time the web applications became more complex with bigger requirements. New technologies, frameworks, and paradigms bounce into the development and pushed developers to specialize in some areas arising new roles from this specialization.
Even when you pass an object to a function or method, you are passing this object by reference, not the value.
If you pass (or copy) an object by reference and then change any property, the ‘source’ object’s property also changes.