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Support CSS variables

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend, web-dev

Research direction

The issue provides only a proposed set --variable to value syntax and no file or test entry point. First read the language's existing syntax and variable-handling documentation or implementation, then clarify the expected CSS-variable behavior and add coverage showing that the proposed syntax works.

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Description

Discussion on the discord seemed to support this idea (with support from Carson), using the following syntax:

set --variable to value
Dominant language
JavaScript
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Forks
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No merged PRs in 30d

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