Max Stoiber

We sit down with Max Stoiber and find out what it takes to find luck in open source. Max is the creator of react-boilerploit and the co-creator of styled-components and spectrum.chat.

Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress

A lightweight toolset for writing styles in JavaScript.

With the benefit of hindsight, let's talk about the technology choices I regret and the lessons I have learned.

At Agentconf Max Stoiber talked about wanting you to contribute to open source.

What if we took the best of JavaScript and the best of CSS, and combined them together to create the ultimate solution? Glen Maddern (CSS Modules co-creator) and I sat down and starting thinking about styling in this new paradigm. Let's talk about what we thought about and why we arrived where we did – 💅 styled-components.

Hot reloading makes for a great Developer Experience, but we can do even better. Using interactive style guides that show our components in a variety of different states we can test their look and feel in diverse situations.

For three years, I have styled my web apps without any .css files. Instead, I have written all the CSS in JavaScript. I know what you are thinking: “why would anybody write CSS in JavaScript?!” Let me explain.

A new, convenient way to quickly style and iterate on your components and their boundaries has landed in styled-components!

The team spoke with hundreds of developers about how they build and scale their web applications, and I want to share some things we learned along the way.