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css-in-js utility library
SHOW HN2017
106points
48comments
#432of 2,242 in 2017
Top 20%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.
Idea: 3 for, 6 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fills a missing piece in the CSS-in-JS ecosystem
From 1 comment
This was a big missing piece of code in the CSS-in-JS world. Thanks for providing the stdlib (following SASS is definitely a great approach).
pygy_ on HN
Well thought-out low-level tool
From 1 comment
I'm a massive CSS-in-JS skeptic but this is a very nicely thought out low-level tool for that stack. It's basically a JS version of SASS mixins (kinda). Most of my objections to…
abritinthebay on HN
Objections
Color and shorthand utilities duplicate existing libraries or plain object syntax
From 2 comments
> this seems to be a way to write the complete CSS in JS, and then to have it compiled into CSS. That isn't what this is although I also had to poke around the source code to…
mbrookes on HNThanks for the clarification "SASS-like mixins for CSS in JS" sums it up. I did look at the docs, but that doesn't have an explanation of what value this is trying to offer…
mbrookes on HN
CSS-in-JS adds style duplication and weakens consistency
From 1 comment
This tool seems useful if you buy into the philosophy, but I'm just not sold yet - component based styling leads to a lot of style duplication and makes it very easy for a…
debaserab2 on HN
Mixing styles into JavaScript is unappealing
From 2 comments
The idea of writing CSS in JS is horrible to me. But I'm coming from a completely different developer camp, and find the vjeux talk completely unconvincing, so that does not mean…
onli on HNI'm coming around slowly but I still have a hard time with css being embedded in JS components. I have used SCSS for so long I am used to style and function being separate…
analogmemory on HN
Requests
Add a How to use this section and better README
From 1 comment
The idea of writing CSS in JS is horrible to me. But I'm coming from a completely different developer camp, and find the vjeux talk completely unconvincing, so that does not mean…
onli on HN
Questions
What the project is and why use it over CSS
From 2 comments
I'm not 100% what this is exactly... Care to clear it up a bit? At first I though this is for those situations where you find yourself urged to modify the css in your javascript.…
onli on HN> this seems to be a way to write the complete CSS in JS, and then to have it compiled into CSS. That isn't what this is although I also had to poke around the source code to…
mbrookes on HN
Effect on browser style caching
From 2 comments
Can somebody explain how this approach affects the style caching by the browser? It seems that this will just throw away all the caching optimizations built around that.
juandazapata on HNIt is replaced by script caching. Loading the styles from JS rather than CSS is a bit slower, but not much.
pygy_ on HN
Alternatives named
styled-components
From 1 comment
That's exactly why we made styled-components![0] I really dislike writing styles as JavaScript objects, so styled-components let's you write actual CSS in JavaScript. We have…
mxstbr on HN
Styletron
From 1 comment
Also interesting, for people who fear style duplication: http://styletron.js.org
k__ on HN
typestyle
From 1 comment
I just discovered http://typestyle.io/ which should make it much easier to write CSS in JS... Auto-completion everywhere... I'll probably steal the approach for my own CSS-in-JS…
pygy_ on HN
Sass/SCSS with BEM
From 2 comments
What is the advantage of bringing your styling into javascript to do that? I do the exact same thing (I don't use BEM either) by isolating specific component styling to it's own…
debaserab2 on HNThis tool seems useful if you buy into the philosophy, but I'm just not sold yet - component based styling leads to a lot of style duplication and makes it very easy for a…
debaserab2 on HN
color.js and brehaut color-js
From 2 comments
> this seems to be a way to write the complete CSS in JS, and then to have it compiled into CSS. That isn't what this is although I also had to poke around the source code to…
mbrookes on HNThanks for the clarification "SASS-like mixins for CSS in JS" sums it up. I did look at the docs, but that doesn't have an explanation of what value this is trying to offer…
mbrookes on HN