Styling React

I've been riding the CSS-in-JS train for years (I was even a significant contributor to the "movement"). It's awesome. I've never been so productive working with CSS than when I added a real programming language to it.

Here, we will be sharing some cool alternatives to styled-components that provide great value and could become the CSS-in-JS library for your next app.

In this tutorial, let’s discuss what advantages a library like styled-components has over the general StyleSheet manager in React Native.

While working on a Next.js website I had the need to move a React component to a whole different place in my markup, depending on the size of the screen.

A simple guide to use Next.js with Stitches.

Among others, Next.js has dubbed itself: The React Framework for Static Websites. But just like every other framework whose goal is to help you build what matters by abstracting common, redundant tasks, you’re often required to learn something new and opinionated. With Next.js, one of the things you need to know is how to integrate different CSS methods with its API, and that is the focus of this tutorial.

styled-components has some cool features that many devs don’t know about. In this guide, we’ll describe some of these features and show you how you can use them to spruce up your next project.

While the component-driven approach has ushered in a new frontier in the way we build web applications, it isn’t without its imperfections — one being its usability and scalability with CSS. This has given birth to a new way to construct and manage our styles in a component-specific manner, otherwise knows as CSS-in-JS.

I’ve been doing a bit of refactoring this week at Sentry and I noticed that we didn’t have a generic List component that we could use across projects and features. So, I started one, but here’s the rub: we style things at Sentry using Emotion, which I have only passing experience with.

How and why you should use styled-jsx for your React SPA and SSR apps.

In this tutorial we'll build a sample financial dashboard from scratch, and learn a bit about CSS grid, KendoReact, and theming in the process.

Let’s take a look at the intersection of using the WAAPI, FLIP, and integrating all that into React. But we’ll start without React first, then get to that.

Gradients come in handy when trying to create multi-color backgrounds or custom buttons. We'll look at how to add linear gradients to our React Native apps.

Tailwind is a popular utility-first CSS framework that provides low-level class names to web developers. It does not have any JavaScript and works well with existing frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular, Ember, and others. Whilst this is positive, it can be confusing for new developers to understand how to integrate Tailwind in their applications.

CSS is a technology that can be your best or worst friend. While it's incredibly flexible and can produce what seems like magic, without the proper care and attention, it can become hard to manage like any other code. How can Tailwind CSS help us to take control of our styles?

React is a fantastic JavaScript library for building rich user interfaces. It provides a great component abstraction for organizing your interfaces into well-functioning code, but what about the look and feel of the app? There are various ways of styling React components from using stylesheets to using external styling libraries.

Build a React design system to speed and standardize web application development.

Follow me on this React journey to learn more about these different strategies and approaches in CSS to style your React components.

An Introduction To Control Components

In this article, we’ll learn how to efficiently implement dark mode in a React app on a simple web page, using the styled-components library and leveraging some React features like hooks. We will also discuss the pros and cons of dark mode and why it should be adopted.

Today i decided to finally take the plunge and start learning NEXTjs. I've been working with Gatsby for two over years now, have created many sites and themes and generally feel very comfortable in that environment. But it was time, finally to bite the bullet and see what all the fuss was about!

My favorite ways to theme React components.

Much has changed in the world of Styled System since my last post. There are fewer packages to deal with; it is much more performant and has a more straightforward and powerful API.

Using CSS custom properties for React theming.

Styled Components is one of those interesting topics that developers love to argue about. It's a brand new way of doing things that many people just aren't ready to acknowledge. Regardless, just because something is different doesn't mean it isn't worth a try.

I’ve been hearing a lot about Tailwind CSS lately and I wanted to give it a try, but I wanted to combine Tailwind with Create React App. In this post I’ll show you how to use Create React App with Tailwind CSS in just a couple quick minutes.

If you’re looking for a way to write easily maintainable and portable CSS in React, you may be interested in using the styled-components library. It’s one of a number of CSS in JS libraries that let you skip some of the pains that you may otherwise experience dealing with large and unwieldy .css files.

In this article, we’ll learn how to build responsive components in React using the @artsy/fresnel package.

There are four different ways to style React application, and in this post you will learn about them all. Let’s start with inline styling.

This article introduces Tailwind CSS, a CSS library that gives you all of the building blocks you need to build bespoke designs without opinionated styles. You’ll also learn how to seamlessly set up Tailwind CSS in a React project.

CSS is the perfect tool when it comes to creating responsive websites and apps, that’s not going to change any time soon. However, sometimes in a React application, you need to conditionally render different components depending on the screen size.

If you ever used React Native, you probably realized it doesn’t use normal HTML & CSS like a web application. In this guide, we will discuss the differences. And one of the main differences you will see is everything is automatically styled based on Flexbox.

I want to bring light on how to make it in ReactNative with react-navigation TabBar.

One question I see on Twitter and such often is why a developer should choose styled-components over other CSS-in-JS libraries (and other forms of CSS in general).

In this tutorial I'll show you how to integrate them with React to create a ThemeComponent (with context!).

Let’s combine all these powerful tools to build awesome products.

We're going to learn about CSS-in-JS, the powers of this technique and how we can create better applications by writing our CSS code with JavaScript.

In React, there are two libraries that work together to make the creation of presentational components very simple: styled-components and styled-system.

But beware! You may step into the too-many-imports-trap or fall into the maelstrom of abstraction, too.

How to style React components in Next.js?

The easiest way to create media queries universally!

CSS Modules are one of the most popular ways for styling React components. Whether you are using only CSS or a more advanced pre-processor like SASS, it doesn't matter for CSS Modules: You can write all these styles in your style sheet files next to your React components.

There are various ways to style React Components. Choosing the right method for styling components isn’t a perfect absolute. It’s a specific decision that should serve your particular use case, personal preferences and above all, architectural goals of the way you work.

Learn how to use styled-components with Bit to create a reusable UI component.

I have a demo that, on the fly, is able to swap the users theme from light to dark. It also remembers the persons last selected choice by saving that selection of 'dark' or 'light' to localStorage and checking there first when setting the theme on the next user visit.

In this tutorial, we’re going to build a toggle that allows users to switch between light and dark modes, using a <ThemeProvider wrapper from the styled-components library.

A skeleton screen is a UI that doesn’t contain actual content; instead, it shows the loading elements of a page in a shape similar to actual content.

I've been testing several React animation libraries and Framer Motion made the highest impression on me. In this post we'll explore how to use Framer Motion to animate Next.js page transitions.

I decided to build my own simple hamburger with sidebar. No pickles, onions or ketchup. Just meat, bun, and a side of menu items.

Writing future-proof CSS is hard. Conflicting classnames, specificity issues, and so on, come up when you have to write and maintain thousands of lines of CSS. To get rid of the aforementioned issues, Styled Components was created.

This nice article on Google, An event for CSS position:sticky shows how to emulate sticky events in vanilla JavaScript without using scroll event but using IntersectionObserver. I will show how to create React components to emulate the same behavior.

Re-think your JSX — Stop using divs and classnames

The React ecosystem offers us a lot of libraries that all are focused on the interaction of drag and drop. We have react-dnd, react-beautiful-dnd, react-drag-n-drop and many more, but some of them require quite a lot of work to build even a simple drag and drop demo, and some do not provide you with more complex functionality, and if they do, it becomes very complex.

We are currently living in a dark mode in everything era. Most apps nowadays come with a switch either at the navbar or just somewhere around its settings, that you just click and the screen goes dark.

CSS-in-JS doesn't absolve you of learning CSS. Mostly, anyway.

The word theme can mean a lot of different things and invoke a lot of different interpretations, which can be both a blessing and a curse.

Let’s re-implement the progress bar on page scroll effect that you may have seen on many popular blogs including this one.

This can seem quite confusing at first, but really the process to implement CSS Modules can be simplified to just 4 steps, as demonstrated in the below example.

There are various ways of changing the background color of a React component, two of which we’ll explore: importing a CSS file and using inline styles.

Learn how to handle styling and theming while using Next.js to build server-side rendered React applications.

Recently, I tried using TailwindCSS in a React project bootstrapped by the Create-React-App (CRA) boilerplate and ran into difficulties setting up TailwindCSS as CRA abstracts configuration.

From time to time, I've heard that CSS-in-JS poses a barrier to entry for some people. Like any new software abstraction, CSS-in-JS is intended to abstract away some of the complexities from a lower level implementation, in this case CSS.

When creating a new Gatsby.js project, there are several available options for styling. styled-components is one of the most popular CSS-in-JSS solutions, and for good reason. It’s powerful, easy to learn, and it works flawlessly with Gatsby. Let’s explore how to add it into your project!

This is a continuation of my previous blog post on this subject.

In this post, I will go over the theming approaches I have seen, and new libraries that came out as recently as June 2019.

50% faster server-side rendering, 20% faster client-side rendering, 19% smaller bundle size, RTL support and no breaking changes.

While React has ways to break the hatch and directly manipulate the DOM there are very few reasons to do this.

Here’s a fun problem for ya: How do you get the CSS from a rendered React component? Right-click, inspect element, see it in dev tools. What about programmatically?

Learn how to use Flexbox with React Native.

In a perfect world, our projects would have unlimited resources and time. Our teams would begin coding with well thought out and highly refined UX designs.

Styled Components are a way of styling your React components using CSS and the advantages offered by ES6.

My favorite way of wrapping my head around such questions is to try to implement the thing myself. So, I built a mostly-useless css-in-js library.

Remember the first time you wrote some html/css? It was amazing, right?

In this article, learn some CSS “hacks” to get 60fps animations in React.js. If you haven’t been using them already, you might kick yourself once you see they can be the difference between jittery and silky smooth animations.

We thought React was crazy when it came with HTML-in-JS (JSX), but today, we are happy that revolution happened. It helped us build better components. Why not do so with CSS too? As a matter of fact, you can. Meet CSS-in-JS.

An example of the CSS-in-JS approach is styled-components. Styled Components allow you to write plain CSS in your components without worrying about class name collisions. It helps to write CSS that’s scoped to a single component and does not leak to any other element in the page.

Styled JSX is a CSS-in-JS library that allows you to write encapsulated and scoped CSS to style your components. The styles you introduce for one component won't affect other components, allowing you to add, change and delete styles without worrying about unintended side effects.

One of the most frequently overlooked principles of creating interactive UIs is transitions. Fortunately, over the last few years, React.js and other component-focused frameworks have changed the way we think about UIs and how we build them.

Today we will be covering a few popular methods to style our React JS applications such as Styled Components and Sass to explain the benefits of both.

Explore the best ways to style a React Native application.

React is a good tool for building flexible and reuseable UI components. However organizing styles in react can be difficult sometimes.

Since the release of React 16.8, I’ve been enjoying the ability to use hooks to create composable and reusable logic, and write fewer class components with explicit lifecycle methods. This not only leads to a more enjoyable dev experience, but (in my opinion) a more readable code base.

In this article, we will be looking at some of the various benefits of styled-components and why you should consider adopting it as your preferred CSS-in-JS framework.

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.

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s a principle that engineers strive to adhere to — preventing code duplication by abstracting shared functionality out into its own place.

Learn the basic steps to setup a React application using Flexbox to make a responsive grid.

CSS-in-JS can be a huge win for maintainability. But for large statically rendered websites, plain CSS still has its place.

Component-based design is an increasingly popular process for developing web interfaces. It was once common for organizations to rely on libraries such as Bootstrap or Material UI.

A tutorial to guide you through styling your React application with Semantic UI. The UI library enables you to build websites with fast and concise HTML, along with a complete mobile responsive experience.

A hot topic these days, and I don't think we'll ever agree, but here are some ways to do CSS in your React app

We mock-up, design and lay out a sales dashboard with native React components from KendoReact, complete with a responsive grid, data, charts and more.

The article is a short how to use CSS Modules in your create-react-app application. It shows you how to setup CSS Modules, but also how to use it in your components.

A short guide on how to add Sass support to your create-react-app application which shows you how to setup Sass, but also how to use it in your React components.

When it comes to styling in React, there are just so many ways and choices of technologies to beautify your web app.

I recently started on an Isomorphic React project. I wanted to use this opportunity to utilize tools that were on my “potential to use” list, and CSS Modules was one of them.

styled-components is one of the most commonly used CSS-in-JS libraries for React.

Component-based design system is the practice of splitting the UI into small, isolated and more manageable parts; backed by a set of design constraints. It builds upon ideas such as Atomic Design, Style Guides and Component-Based Architecture.

Integrating Bootstrap with React allows React developers to use Bootstrap’s state-of-the-art grid system and its various other components.

How we style our React Native app with styled-components at Magnetis

This tutorial explains how to create themes to handle reusable styles with styled-components in React.

You probably already have whiplash from how fast the Node/React ecosystem moves and how quickly new ideas and frameworks emerge

While working with Next.js, I ran into an obscure problem. This had to do with how styles are rendered on the server, and it never struck till now that styles are also first class citizens for server-side rendering.

The goal of this guide is to share the core principles of how to use styled-components in a server side rendered React application.

No longer do you have to maintain bunch of style-sheets. CSS-in-JS abstracts the CSS model to the component level, rather than the document level (modularity).

Traditional styling of websites relies on having an external stylesheet with CSS. This tradition has been challenged with the advent of React and component based UI design.

This way, to drive your inspiration, I am going to tell you the story of an SVG image that one day made a very special friend - ReactJS. Alone and despised by its family, SVG yelled Enough! Now you’ll see what I’m all about!

What if we could wield layout composition as an actual React component? Spoiler: that would solve the #1 issue that prevents our layouts from being truly reusable.

When developers have too much freedom in defining the UI, they will do things differently. The issue could be solved by avoiding any custom CSS on the app level and having a set of primitive components that allow developers to glue UI together in a consistent way.

Understanding this could be the key to confidently adding animations to our websites and apps. Animations with code seem hard, but they shouldn’t be. In this talk, I will give some tips and explore some tools to simplify creating animations in React.

Let's explore how Hooks can make it easier to integrate powerful GPU-driven visuals into our React apps, giving us the best of both worlds: the power of WebGL with the ease and expressiveness of a React component tree.

In this talk, we'll look at the current state of design and development, and where we could go—if we're willing to push for it.

In this video, we are looking at the YouTube app transitions.

In this talk, you'll learn how to pitch a design system to your boss, rarely discussed technical caveats and challenges, and how to set your design system up for success from the start.

Let's walk this road thogheter and I promise it will all be fine and you will leave with an ideia of type of styling is better for each project. Hint: There is no perfect way...

This talk will take you through our journey to Polaris. An overview of what a design system is, why you would want one, and how we built ours at Shopify. I will give you a behind the scenes look into the technologies and patterns we used to build the system. React, TypeScript, CSS modules, markdown, and how they all come together to build something that both designers and developers will enjoy using.

We will go through CSS-IN-JS libs for React with comparison, special features, documentation, SSR support and the whole developer experience.

This talk will be a comparison of several approaches to implementing motion in React, from using CSS-in-JS tools like Styled Components, as well as animating components with vanilla JS, functional libraries, or libraries more closely tied to the ecosystem like React Motion.

Learn how to setup TailwindCSS with NextJS.

CSS is hard !I made a living out of it being hard but when React was introduced we had a whole new level of fighting over CSS, there are so many ways to approach it and so many tradeoffs one can do when choosing the better approach that a talk that will go over these options is more than necessary.

Notes on custom Icons and Typographies in React Native using Expo.

This talk explores various ways that we, as front-end developers, can make our products more delightful to use. While it’s design’s job to give us static mock-ups, it’s our job to bring those designs to life.

Styled components are my fav approach to styling React. Best balance between normal CSS and css-in-js.

CSS Modules are not my favorite, but they're pretty much the only option when you have a bunch of existing CSS that you want to make better.

In this What Is Wednesday, I answer the question. What Is CSS In JS as well as What is Styled Components?

The style prop is great. It's there by default and it works. You should use it for one-off styling overrides or your app is gonna get unruly.

Styling is hard. There are many ways to do it. Do you go CSS, do you go css-in-js, which css-in-js do you choose?

React has no standard way to style components. A slew of ideas and frameworks have grown out of the community. But, with so many CSS in JS solutions, how do you know which one to choose? In this talk, I will cover five different ways to style your React projects, and the pros and cons of each approach. From CSS Modules with SASS to Styled Components, you’ll learn how each library works so that you know which one(s) best fits your needs.

CSS is hard ! I made a living out of it being hard but when React was introduced we had a whole new level of fighting over CSS, there are so many ways to approach it and so many tradeoffs one can do when choosing the better approach that a talk that will go over these options is more than necessary.

Today's front-end community is highly fragmented when it comes to styling. From good-old css, css modules, and inline styles to numerous css-in-js libraries—there is a range of options to choose from. This talk puts forth some best practices discovered while building a React component library shared across all different engineering teams at Signavio.

I talk about latest happenings from the javascript/frontend world

This is a recording of my screen during my talk at the internal conference JS@PayPal on July 20th 2017. I talk about CSS in JS and how it can help us with css in applications.

Let's use styled-components to create a shareable npm package to keep our UI consistent across multiple apps. In this video we will publish to NPM and install our package inside a create-react-app and Next.js application using Yarn.

Let's use styled-components to create a shareable npm package to keep our UI consistent across multiple apps.

I recorded a quick video to show you an awesome CSS-in-JS solution that is styled-jsx. Check it out!

I no longer care about: specificity, CSS linters, CSS preprocessors, vendor prefixing, removing unused CSS, finding CSS dependencies and dependents. I now care more about: whether it’s fast enough, whether it’s small enough, whether it’s familiar enough. These are some of my trade-offs. Because I use CSS-in-JS.

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.

Talk by Michael Chan at Full Stack Talks

Learn how to build the fastest websites on the planet with this Gatsby v2, a new static site generator using React.

Get productive in Framer X. Learn React fundamentals. No coding experience required!

With this course, you'll learn how to build and animate your site from scratch. Create highly customizable components for your design system. A 6-hour course for designers, by designers.

Learn how to style your React components with React Styled Components.

This course provides tested, easy-to-follow instructions to solve the most common challenges that React developers face every day

Zero configuration, universal JavaScript web apps with Next.js for React.

In this series, we dive into intermediate React concepts where you'll learn things like, how to use the React Context API, how to make a portal in React, how to use and understand render props as well as animated transitions and interactive animations in React.

Learn how to add complex interactions-hover and click interactions, navigation popups, grids and galleries, scrolling, and more-in React applications.

Dive in and learn React from scratch! Learn Reactjs, Redux, React Routing, Animations, Next.js basics and way more!

Learn React from the beginning. Style components yourself!

Learn how to build and launch React web applications using React v16, Redux, Webpack, React-Router v4, and more

This course is designed for developers in the React community who are now seeking to leverage CSS modules, components, grids, and more.

Compute measurements of a React component.

Full CSS support for JSX without compromises

A set of wrapper components to facilitate using Material UI with Redux Form