razzle VS styled-components

Documentation

You don't need NextJS for SSR. There are less opinionated alternatives like Remix that was built by the React Router team and is backed by Shopify now, you can use something like Razzle or one of its alternatives for semi-opinionated pure SSR or follow the Vite Docs and just do it yourself with express.

Razzle: I've never used it personally, but based on what I can tell it seems to be an attempt to enhance the Create React App concept, enabling CSR/SSR while also working well with libraries other than React.

Razzle is a tool for building Universal applications: applications that can execute their JavaScript on the server. Or the client. Or both. Razzle uses a plugin architecture that allows you to change your mind about how you build your application. It will even let you change your mind about building your code in React, Preact, or some other framework entirely, like Elm or Vue.

5 Razzle Razzle Razzle uses this method to operate with a variety of frameworks, including Angular, Preact, Vue, Svelte, and not just React. While your app is running, just type rs in the console and press Enter to restart your server.

Ya... the answer is react ssr. I like razzle but there are others.

Somehow at the interview I was asked "what i think about difficulty of configuring Webpack for Linaria, at that moment I realized, what to find a solution to set up Linaria with SSR is not simple task", but I will show you the final result for example Razzle config:

Each component is isolated and tested separately before being exported as a complete unit. It simplifies testing, because you just have to deal with this one component if you wish to make a little change. Bit is also great for test-driven development because of its component isolation.It is available for personal and open source projects at no cost. 9.Razzle Razzle simplifies SSR configuration by encapsulating it in a single dependency. It provides developers with a similar experience to create-react-app, but with more control over frameworks, routing, and data fetching.

Razzle - Build production ready React applications. Razzle is toolchain for modern static and dynamic websites and web applications

It Is Serverside Rendering Framework As Well And This Provide Much More Flexibility. Razzle Docs

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.

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.

styled-components: Allows for maintainable styling with CSS-in-JS. Learn more

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.

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.

Website: Styled Components

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.

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: