styled-components is a popular CSS-in-JS library for React applications. It allows developers to write actual CSS code to style their components directly within their JavaScript code. This approach offers benefits such as scoped styles, dynamic styling based on props, and easier maintenance of styles alongside component code.
While styled-components is widely used and loved by many developers, there are other CSS-in-JS libraries that offer similar functionality. Here are a couple of alternatives:
- emotion is another CSS-in-JS library that provides a similar approach to styling components in React. It offers features like nested selectors, theming, and server-side rendering support.
- styled-jsx is a CSS-in-JS solution that is built into Next.js, a popular React framework. It allows developers to write CSS directly within their React components using a syntax similar to regular CSS.
For a detailed comparison of emotion, styled-components, and styled-jsx, check out: Comparing emotion vs styled-components vs styled-jsx.
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Utilizing tagged template literals (a recent addition to JavaScript) and the power of CSS, styled-components allow you to write actual CSS code to style your components. It also removes the mapping between components and styles – using components as a low-level styling construct could not be easier!
const Button = styled.button`
color: grey;
`;
Alternatively, you may use style objects. This allows for easy porting of CSS from inline styles, while still supporting the more advanced styled-components capabilities like component selectors and media queries.
const Button = styled.button({
color: 'grey',
});
Equivalent to:
const Button = styled.button`
color: grey;
`;
styled-components is compatible with both React (for web) and React Native – meaning it's the perfect choice even for truly universal apps! See the documentation about React Native for more information.
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See the documentation at styled-components.com/docs for more information about using styled-components!
Quicklinks to some of the most-visited pages:
Example
import React from 'react';
import styled from 'styled-components';
// Create a <Title> react component that renders an <h1> which is
// centered, palevioletred and sized at 1.5em
const Title = styled.h1`
font-size: 1.5em;
text-align: center;
color: palevioletred;
`;
// Create a <Wrapper> react component that renders a <section> with
// some padding and a papayawhip background
const Wrapper = styled.section`
padding: 4em;
background: papayawhip;
`;
function MyUI() {
return (
// Use them like any other React component – except they're styled!
<Wrapper>
<Title>Hello World, this is my first styled component!</Title>
</Wrapper>
);
}
This is what you'll see in your browser:
Looking for v5?
The main branch is for the most-current version of styled-components, currently v6. For changes targeting v5, please point your PRs at the legacy-v5 branch.
Built with styled-components
A lot of hard work goes into community libraries, projects, and guides. A lot of them make it easier to get started or help you with your next project! There are also a whole lot of interesting apps and sites that people have built using styled-components.
Make sure to head over to awesome-styled-components to see them all! And please contribute and add your own work to the list so others can find it.
Contributing
If you want to contribute to styled-components please see our contributing and community guidelines, they'll help you get set up locally and explain the whole process.
Please also note that all repositories under the styled-components organization follow our Code of Conduct, make sure to review and follow it.
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License
Licensed under the MIT License, Copyright © 2016-present Glen Maddern and Maximilian Stoiber.
See LICENSE for more information.
Acknowledgements
This project builds on a long line of earlier work by clever folks all around the world. We'd like to thank Charlie Somerville, Nik Graf, Sunil Pai, Michael Chan, Andrey Popp, Jed Watson & Andrey Sitnik who contributed ideas, code or inspiration.
Special thanks to @okonet for the fantastic logo.
