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restyle

The simplest way to add CSS styles to your React components.

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Features

  • Zero-runtime CSS in JS
  • Generates atomic class names
  • De-duplicates styles
  • Works in Server and Client Components
  • Compatible with Suspense and streaming
  • Encourages encapsulation
  • Supports css prop with JSX pragma
  • Loads styles on demand
  • Allows shipping CSS in NPM packages
  • Small core 1.38kb minified and gzipped

Installation

npm install restyle

[!IMPORTANT] This library requires a React Canary version since it utilizes the new style hoisting feature.

How it Works

Restyle leverages React's new ability to hoist style elements by generating atomic CSS on-demand to provide a flexible and efficient styling solution for React components. Here's a high-level overview of how it operates:

  1. Styles Parsing: Restyle takes a styles object of CSS and parses it, generating atomic class names for each unique style property and value pair:
import { css } from 'restyle'

const [classNames, styleElement] = css({
  padding: '1rem',
  backgroundColor: 'peachpuff',
})

// classNames: 'x1y2 x3z4'
// styleElement: <style>.x1y2{padding:1rem}.x3z4{background-color:peachpuff}</style>
  1. Class Names Generation and Deduplication: Atomic class names are generated using a hashing function to ensure uniqueness and prevent collisions. Class names are cached per request, optimizing performance and reducing the overall size of the generated CSS:
import { css } from 'restyle'

const [classNames] = css({
  padding: '1rem',
  backgroundColor: 'tomato',
})

// Example output: 'x1y2 xfg3'
  1. Atomic CSS: By breaking down styles into atomic units, it allows for highly reusable class names, making it easy to manage and override styles while reducing the overall size of the CSS produced:
import { css } from 'restyle'

const styles = {
  padding: '1rem',
  backgroundColor: 'rebeccapurple',
}

const [classNames, styleElement] = css(styles)

// classNames: 'x1y2 x4z1'
// Reuse class names for other elements
const buttonStyles = {
  ...styles,
  border: '1px solid black',
}

const [buttonClassNames, buttonStyleElement] = css(buttonStyles)

// buttonClassNames: 'x1y2 x4z1 x5a6'
  1. On-Demand Style Injection: Styles are only added to the DOM when the component or element is rendered:
import { css } from 'restyle'

export default function OnDemandStyles() {
  const [classNames, styleElement] = css({
    padding: '1rem',
    backgroundColor: 'papayawhip',
  })

  return (
    <>
      <div className={classNames}>Hello World</div>
      {styleElement}
    </>
  )
}
  1. Integration with JSX Pragma: Easily add support for the css prop via the JSX pragma, allowing colocated inline CSS styles directly on JSX elements.
/** @jsxImportSource restyle */

export default function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <div
      css={{
        padding: '1rem',
        backgroundColor: 'peachpuff',
      }}
    >
      Hello World
    </div>
  )
}

Examples

Basic Usage

import React from 'react'
import { css } from 'restyle'

export default function BasicUsage() {
  const [classNames, styles] = css({
    padding: '1rem',
    backgroundColor: 'peachpuff',
  })

  return <div className={classNames}>Hello World {styles}</div>
}

Box Component

import React from 'react'
import { css } from 'restyle'

export function Box({
  children,
  display = 'flex',
  alignItems,
  justifyContent,
  padding,
  backgroundColor,
}) {
  const [classNames, styles] = css({
    display,
    alignItems,
    justifyContent,
    padding,
    backgroundColor,
  })
  return (
    <>
      <div className={classNames}>{children}</div>
      {styles}
    </>
  )
}

CSS Prop

The css function is most useful for components. However, you can use the css prop to style elements directly. The pragma will take care of applying the class names and injecting the style tag.

First, configure the pragma in your tsconfig.json file:

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "jsxImportSource": "restyle"
  }
}

Now, you can use the css prop to style elements:

export default function CSSProp() {
  return (
    <div
      css={{
        padding: '1rem',
        backgroundColor: 'peachpuff',
      }}
    >
      Hello World
    </div>
  )
}

Alternatively, you can set the pragma at the top of the file:

/** @jsxImportSource restyle */

export default function CSSProp() {
  return (
    <div
      css={{
        padding: '1rem',
        backgroundColor: 'peachpuff',
      }}
    >
      Hello World
    </div>
  )
}

Psuedoclasses

/** @jsxImportSource restyle */

export default function Hover() {
  return (
    <div
      css={{
        ':hover': {
          opacity: 0.8,
        },
      }}
    >
      Hover me
    </div>
  )
}

Media Queries

/** @jsxImportSource restyle */

export default function MediaQueries() {
  return (
    <h1
      css={{
        fontSize: '2rem',
        '@media screen and (min-width: 40em)': {
          fontSize: '3.5rem',
        },
      }}
    >
      Resize the window
    </h1>
  )
}

Child Selectors

/** @jsxImportSource restyle */

export default function ChildSelectors() {
  return (
    <div
      css={{
        color: 'black',
        '> a': {
          color: 'tomato',
        },
      }}
    >
      Parent
      <a href="#">Link</a>
    </div>
  )
}

Development

cd example
npm install
npm run dev

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