Tagged Template Literals - The Magic Behind Styled Components

• styled-components

  223 40,061 8.7 TypeScript

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

  

If you have some experience with React, you probably came across styled-components. In the last few years, the concept of css-in-js became more popular, and there are multiple libraries that are available for us to use. styled-components is one of them, but you can also find Emotion, Radium, JSS, and more. In this post I'm not going to cover the pros and cons of traditional stylesheet files vs. styled-components, and instead - I'm going to focus on tagged template literals - the "magic" that let us use the styled-components syntax.

• Radium

  3 7,432 0.7 JavaScript

  Discontinued A toolchain for React component styling.

  

If you have some experience with React, you probably came across styled-components. In the last few years, the concept of css-in-js became more popular, and there are multiple libraries that are available for us to use. styled-components is one of them, but you can also find Emotion, Radium, JSS, and more. In this post I'm not going to cover the pros and cons of traditional stylesheet files vs. styled-components, and instead - I'm going to focus on tagged template literals - the "magic" that let us use the styled-components syntax.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• JSS

  16 7,050 0.0 JavaScript

  JSS is an authoring tool for CSS which uses JavaScript as a host language.

  

If you have some experience with React, you probably came across styled-components. In the last few years, the concept of css-in-js became more popular, and there are multiple libraries that are available for us to use. styled-components is one of them, but you can also find Emotion, Radium, JSS, and more. In this post I'm not going to cover the pros and cons of traditional stylesheet files vs. styled-components, and instead - I'm going to focus on tagged template literals - the "magic" that let us use the styled-components syntax.

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