Comparison of CSS in JavaScript Libraries for React(github.com)

33 pointsby tilt11 anni fa9 comments

Comparison of CSS in JavaScript Libraries for React

https://github.com/FormidableLabs/radium/blob/master/docs/comparison/README.md

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We've stopped shipping CSS on green fields client projects. It's been amazing. All of our styles are in JS objects that are applied to inline style tags. It's modularized like classes are, but there is no cascade so there are no globals. Most importantly, everything can be recomputed at any time - no longer dealing with a static stylesheet.

var globalStyles = require("globalStyles");

var styles = { color: globalStyles.blue, padding: foo ? "15px" : "10px", margin: bar(this.state.qux) }

We built Radium to solve the problems this causes, like :hover - it's the lib Chan talks about in that React Europe talk christopherscot links to.

http://projects.formidablelabs.com/radium/

I talked at CSSConf about ditching CSS for inline about a month ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoaxsCi13yQ

natmaster11 anni fa

Or just use webpack? Not sure what these things are trying to solve that making a less or scss file for every component file and require-ing it doesn't.

lstamour11 anni fa

There are a few arguments here on keeping your CSS in JS just as JSX allows for HTML in JS: https://speakerdeck.com/vjeux/react-css-in-js

christopherscot11 anni fa

Here's another talk that illustrates some of the emerging thoughts around inline styles in React https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERB1TJBn32c

supercoder11 anni fa

Great thing is this does away with the need for these macro languages like less and scss.

fuzionmonkey11 anni fa

If you're interested in CSS in JS you should check out css-modules [1] and its Webpack [2] or Browserify implementation [3].

You get scoped, modular, composable, requirable CSS without the burden of doing styles in JS.

[1] https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules

[2] https://github.com/webpack/css-loader

[3] https://github.com/css-modules/css-modulesify

SeeThruHead11 anni fa

This is miles better than everything on that list for things that don't need much dynamic style computation.

moretti11 anni fa

Here's another great comparison: https://github.com/MicheleBertoli/css-in-js

I think that css-modules (implemented in webpack's css-loader) is the sanest approach: https://medium.com/seek-ui-engineering/the-end-of-global-css...

PhrosTT11 anni fa

So I'm looking for a simple solution 1 step beyond just using js style objects. Would radium be good without creating a ton of lock-in? I can't really sort through this giant chart.