It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I’m joined by Dustin Schau in this video and he is going to take me on a tour of the world of what has come to be known as CSS-in-JS. That is, doing your styling entirely in JavaScript, rather than in .css files that you <link /> up in the head all on your own.
Dustin is a perfect guide for this, as he created a great exploratory tool called CSS in JS Playground and also has a brand new … Read article “#168: CSS-in-JS”
html {
font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;
}With the exception of some form elements, you’ve just set a font on every bit of text on a site! Nice! That’s probably what you were trying to do, because of the probably hundreds of elements all over your site, setting that font-family every time would be tedious and error-prone.
CSS is global by nature. On purpose!
I like how David Khourshid put it:
… Read article “Regarding CSS’s Global Scope”You ever stop and think about why CSS has a
TLDR: The CSS-in-JS community has converged on a consistent API.
Not so long ago, a Facebook engineer compiled a list of the available CSS-in-JS methodologies. It wasn’t short:
aphrodite, babel-plugin-css-in-js, babel-plugin-pre-style, bloody-react-styled, classy, csjs, css-constructor, css-light, css-loader, css-ns, cssobj, cssx-loader, cxs, electron-css, emotion, es-css-modules, freestyler, glamor, glamorous, hiccup-css, hyperstyles, i-css, j2c, jsxstyle, linaria, nano-css, pre-style, radium, react-css-builder, react-css-components, react-css-modules, react-cssom, react-fela, react-free-style, react-inline-css, react-inline-style, react-inline, react-jss, react-look, react-native-web, react-statics-styles, react-styl, react-style, react-styleable, react-stylematic, react-theme, react-vstyle, reactcss, restyles, scope-styles, smart-css, stile-react-media-queries, … Read article “The Fragmented, But Evolving State of CSS-in-JS”
In the previous post in this two-part series, we explored the CSS-in-JS landscape and, we realized not only that CSS-in-JS can produce critical styles, but also that some libraries don’t even have a runtime. We saw that user experience can significantly improve by adding clever optimizations, which is why this series focuses on developer experience (the experience of authoring styles).
In this part, we’ll explore the tools for “plain ol’ CSS” by refactoring the Photo component from our existing example.… Read article “Bridging the Gap Between CSS and JavaScript: CSS Modules, PostCSS and the Future of CSS”
In this article, we’re going to dig into the concept of CSS-in-JS. If you’re already acquainted with this concept, you might still enjoy a stroll through the philosophy of that approach, and you might be even more interested in the next article.
Web development is very interdisciplinary. We’re used to working closely with multiple languages. And, as developing web applications becomes more commonplace and nuanced, we often look for creative ways to bridge the gaps between those languages to … Read article “Bridging the Gap Between CSS and JavaScript: CSS-in-JS”
