@slimr/css

🪶 @slimr/css

tiny css-in-js features, inspired by the popular emotion library

Demo: CodeSandbox

Features:

• Much smaller (less bundle size)
• Less is more: faster, less bugs, no breaking changes
• Is progressive -- lazy loads styles
• Css shorthand props like chakra-ui
• CSS responsive shorthand props like chakra-ui

Context

@slimr is a set of slim React (hence '@slimr') libs. Check them all out on github!

Setup/Install

npm i @slimr/css

API

addCss

Injects css to the page head

• Queues and batches injections for better performance
• Has local cache to recall prior adds, to reduce duplicates and dom changes

import {addCSs} from '@slimr/css'

addCss(`.foo { color: green; }`) // queues css for injection
addCss(`.foo { color: green; }`) // ignored bc duplicate
addCss(`.foo { background: purplse`) // queues more css
// the queue will be executed next javascript tick

css (alias for createClass)

Upserts and returns a unique css class for a given css string

• Leverages addCss under the hood, so very performant
• Supports several css short-hands, inspired by Chakra-UI's box
• Supports array values for responsive styles, similar to Chakra-UI's box. More here

import {createClass, css} from '@slimr/css'
c1 = createClass('c: red;') // queues the create of new css class 's0'
c2 = createClass('c: red;') // is duplicate so will return 's0'
c3 = createClass`c: red;` // same
c4 = css`c: red;` // same
// c1 = c2 = c3 = c4
<div className={css`c: red;`} /> // will resolve to 's0' like above
c5 = css`c: blue;` // queues the create of new css class 's1'
c6 = css`w: [100%, null, 400px]` // width = 100% on mobile and table, 400px on desktop

...and the queue will be executed next javascript tick

classJoin

Joins class names and omits falsey props

import {classJoin} from '@slimr/css'

classJoin('a', 'b', 'c') // 'a b c'
classJoin('a', 0, 'b', null, 'c') // 'a b c'

Comparisons

Emotion

• A popular css-in-js lib that inspired this lib

Pros

• More mature, SSR support

Cons

• Is huge (>10kb)
• Many features require addons, which make bundle even larger
• Does not support zx prop or css shorthand props

Astroturf

• A popular css-in-js lib similar to Emotion but compiles out the css into css stylesheets

Pros

• More performant (zero kbs, no need for caching or Map lookups)
• Support for all the PostCSS magic you may desire

Cons

• Requires babel/bundler config
• Does not support zx prop or css shorthand props
• Is not progressive -- all styles for all components is loaded and blocks initial page paint

Linaria

• Pretty much identical to Astroturf, but maybe better Vite support