PostCSS
Transforming styles with JS plugins (by postcss)
styled-components
Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress đź’… (by styled-components)
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86 | 222 | |
28,181 | 40,061 | |
0.3% | 0.3% | |
8.8 | 8.7 | |
30 days ago | 11 days ago | |
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MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
PostCSS
Posts with mentions or reviews of PostCSS.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-11.
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PostCSS - my initial experience
the plugins in the official PostCSS website were old like IE6 or the marquee tag, and
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Dark Mode with SvelteKit, a Blog Post
Hello internet. I just published a new blog post on how to implement dark mode with SvelteKit, optionally with PostCSS and TailwindCSS:
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11 Ways to Optimize Your Website
There are many frontend tools available for this purpose. For example, PostCSS is a popular CSS processor that can combine and minimize your code. With the right plugin, it can even fix your code for compatibility issues, making sure your CSS styles work for all browsers.
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Styling React 2023 edition
I use PostCSS to extend CSS’s features and to add a few things that make writing styles a little more convenient, but it could easily be swapped for another preprocessor like Sass or vanilla CSS. It’s up to you. You can view my PostCSS config here.
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Abstract Syntax Trees and Practical Applications in JavaScript
Code transpilation isn't specific to JavaScript, You can also add a level of transformation to your CSS source using tools like post-css. Most languages with a fairly mature ecosystem will probably have some tools to help with code transformation.
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Native CSS nesting now supported by all major browsers!
In large projects, it is still a good idea to use PostCSS, which will translate new CSS features to something that browsers understand today.
- Unicode-range CSS is working wrong in Safari browser?
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Let's Make Learning Frontend Great Again!
LiveCodes provides many of the commonly used developer tools. These include Monaco editor (that powers VS Code), Prettier, Emmet, Vim/Emacs modes, Babel, TypeScript, SCSS, Less, PostCSS, Jest and Testing Library, among others. All these tools run seamlessly in the browser without any installations or configurations. It feels like a very light-weight version of your own local development environment including the keyboard shortcuts, IntelliSense and code navigation features.
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How to setup a simple static website using Svelte (with login)
Usually, one of the first things I do on creating a new web app is to throw a UI library in to help style components. There are several UI libraries that can be used by Svelte, but in this case I went with daisyUI because it's a fairly popular UI library which includes tailwind. To install daisyUI, you first need to install tailwind. There's a few different ways to do this (such as this guide), but the easiest way I've found is the following command, which also adds PostCSS and AutoPrefixer:
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Vanilla+PostCSS as an Alternative to SCSS
Vanilla CSS has taken a similar path with ambitious working drafts, better browser support, and PostCSS to fill the gap for user agents lagging behind. So why is Sass/SCSS still so popular? Maybe we go so used to it that we might have forgotten what problems it was meant to solve in the first place.
styled-components
Posts with mentions or reviews of styled-components.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.
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Growth Hacking Killed GitHub Stars
In 2023, I had a chat with Max Stoiber, CEO of Stellate, on a podcast to learn about his early success on GitHub. His first open-source project, react-boilerplate/react-boilerplate, gained a whopping 10k stars in just one weekend after appearing on the homepage of Hacker News. This success led Max to drop out of university and create several other popular open-source projects, including styled-components. This library accelerates the process of building styles in React components.
- Creating Nx Workspace with Eslint, Prettier and Husky Configuration
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The Secret Weapon of Top Developers: 7 React JS Libraries You Can't Afford to Ignore
Embracing the styled-components library allows developers to write actual CSS code to style their components. It utilizes tagged template literals to style components, enabling a seamless integration of styles within the component's JavaScript file. This approach eliminates the mapping between components and styles, thus enhancing developer productivity and component reusability.
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The 20 most used React libraries
styled-components: Allows for maintainable styling with CSS-in-JS. Learn more
- Iniciando um backoffice rapidamente com AdminJS
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Styling React 2023 edition
Over the past few years, I've worked with React apps utilising various CSS-in-JS libraries, starting with styled-components, transitioning through emotion, Theme UI, and finally Stitches. I've also integrated MUI, Mantine, and Chakra in numerous client projects.
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The Ultimate Tech Stack for Building a Full-Stack MVP and Iterating Quickly
There are several alternatives to MUI. shadcn/ui is a modern alternative that is very popular. Ant Design is also a great alternative. Charkra UI can also be used as a UI Framework. Some people suggest just using styled components. Some use Tailwind CSS. Yet, for both styled components and Tailwind CSS, one still writes a lot of CSS. This might not provide the best developer experience compared to using a UI Framework, especially if we aim to avoid designing all the pages on the website.
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React Ecosystem in 2024
Website: Styled Components
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Building an entire fullstack project with Firebase 10 and React (Vite)
The project is build using several ready made components available within, Mantine. It’s a fully featured React components library. However some places still use some custom CSS-in-JS so we used some good ol’ styled components.
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Media Queries and Responsive Design
You can use Media Queries in Styled-Components similar to how you would use them in CSS, other than the fact that you can define custom screen sizes in your theme and access them inside your Media Queries:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PostCSS and styled-components you can also consider the following projects:
emotion - 👩‍🎤 CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition
styled-jsx - Full CSS support for JSX without compromises
esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web
chakra-ui - ⚡️ Simple, Modular & Accessible UI Components for your React Applications
Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
purgecss - Remove unused CSS
styletron - :zap: Toolkit for component-oriented styling
JSS - JSS is an authoring tool for CSS which uses JavaScript as a host language.
prettier - Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.
Material UI - Ready-to-use foundational React components, free forever. It includes Material UI, which implements Google's Material Design.