About styled-component
Styled-components is a popular library that is used to style React applications. It allows you to build custom components by writing actual CSS in your JavaScript.
What Is Styled-Components?
There are many options you can take when it comes to styling a React application. The traditional way would be to create an external CSS file, then pass the attributes as a string on the className prop.
You can also use the CSS-in-JS technique, where you write the CSS in the JavaScript file. Styled-components takes this approach.
Benefits of using styled-components
- Automatic critical CSS
- No class name bugs
- Easier deletion of CSS
- Simple dynamic styling
- Painless maintenance
- Automatic vendor prefixing
styled-components keeps track of which components are rendered on a page and only adds their styles
styled-components generates a unique class name for the styles
styles are tied to a specific component rather than being added as a class name
styles can be added to a component based on props or a theme
styles added to a component is done all in one place, rather than across multiple files
styled-components handles all of this
Conclusion
Thanks for reading! I hope this article was helpful for you to get started using styled-components with React. Styled-components is a great choice to style a React project thanks to its ease of use and ability to create reusable components.
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