@material-ui/styles

What is @material-ui/styles?

The @material-ui/styles package is a library that allows you to manage styles in your React applications. It provides an API for defining styles that can be applied to components in a consistent and reusable manner. This package is part of the larger Material-UI framework, which is a popular set of tools for building React user interfaces according to the Material Design guidelines.

What are @material-ui/styles's main functionalities?

Theming

Allows you to create a custom theme and apply it globally across all components in your application using a ThemeProvider.

{
  import { createMuiTheme, ThemeProvider } from '@material-ui/core/styles';
  const theme = createMuiTheme({
    palette: {
      primary: {
        main: '#556cd6',
      },
      secondary: {
        main: '#19857b',
      },
    },
  });
  function App() {
    return (
      <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
        <YourComponent />
      </ThemeProvider>
    );
  }
}

CSS-in-JS

Provides a way to define styles using JavaScript, which allows for dynamic styling and access to props and theme in styles.

{
  import { makeStyles } from '@material-ui/core/styles';
  const useStyles = makeStyles({
    root: {
      background: 'linear-gradient(45deg, #FE6B8B 30%, #FF8E53 90%)',
      border: 0,
      borderRadius: 3,
      boxShadow: '0 3px 5px 2px rgba(255, 105, 135, .3)',
      color: 'white',
      height: 48,
      padding: '0 30px',
    },
  });
  function StyledComponent() {
    const classes = useStyles();
    return <button className={classes.root}>Styled Button</button>;
  }
}

Other packages similar to @material-ui/styles

styled-components

Styled-components is a library for styling React applications using tagged template literals. It allows for CSS to be written directly within JavaScript, providing scoped styles without class name bugs. Compared to @material-ui/styles, styled-components does not rely on a theme provider for theming but integrates theming capabilities within its API.

emotion

Emotion is a performant and flexible CSS-in-JS library that allows you to style applications quickly with string or object styles. It supports both theming and composition, similar to @material-ui/styles, but offers a more extensive set of features for composing styles together.

README

@material-ui/styles

You can leverage our styling solution, even if you are not using our components.

Installation

Install the package in your project directory with:

// with npm
npm install @material-ui/styles

// with yarn
yarn add @material-ui/styles

Documentation

The documentation