Fela is a small, high-performant and framework-agnostic toolbelt to handle state-driven styling in JavaScript.
It is dynamic by design and renders your styles depending on your application state.
It generates atomic CSS and supports all common CSS features such as media queries, pseudo classes, keyframes and font-faces. Fela ships with a powerful plugin API adding e.g. vendor prefixing or fallback value support.
Fela can be used with React or with any other view library. It even supports React Native.
Support Robin Frischmann's work on Fela and its ecosystem directly via Patreon.
yarn add fela
You may alternatively use npm i --save fela.
Fela's core principle is to consider style as a function of state.
The whole API and all plugins and bindings are built on that idea.
It is reactive and auto-updates once registered to the DOM.
The following example illustrates the key parts of Fela though it only shows the very basics.
import { createRenderer } from 'fela'
// a simple style rule is a pure function of state
// that returns an object of style declarations
const rule = state => ({
textAlign: 'center',
padding: '5px 10px',
// directly use the state to compute style values
fontSize: state.fontSize + 'pt',
borderRadius: 5,
// deeply nest media queries and pseudo classes
':hover': {
fontSize: state.fontSize + 2 + 'pt',
boxShadow: '0 0 2px rgb(70, 70, 70)'
}
})
const renderer = createRenderer()
// fela generates atomic CSS classes in order to achieve
// maximal style reuse and minimal CSS output
const className = renderer.renderRule(rule, {
fontSize: 14
}) // => a b c d e f
The generated CSS output would look like this:
.a { text-align: center }
.b { padding: 5px 10px }
.c { font-size: 14pt }
.d { border-radius: 5px }
.e:hover { font-size: 16pt }
.f:hover { box-shadow: 0 0 2px rgb(70, 70, 70) }
If you're using Fela, you're most likely also using React.
Using the React bindings, you get powerful APIs to create primitive components.
Read: Usage with React for a full guide.
import { FelaComponent, Provider } from 'react-fela'
import { render } from 'react-dom'
const rule = state => ({
textAlign: 'center',
padding: '5px 10px',
// directly use the state to compute style values
fontSize: state.fontSize + 'pt',
borderRadius: 5,
// deeply nest media queries and pseudo classes
':hover': {
fontSize: state.fontSize + 2 + 'pt',
boxShadow: '0 0 2px rgb(70, 70, 70)'
}
})
const Button = ({ fontSize = 14, children }) => (
<FelaComponent rule={rule} fontSize={fontSize}>
{children}
</FelaComponent>
)
render(
<Provider renderer={renderer}>
<>
<Button>Basic Button</Button>
<Button fontSize={18}>Big Button</Button>
</>
</Provider>,
document.body
)
If you are coming from CSS and want to learn JavaScript Styling with Fela, there is a full-feature fela-workshop which demonstrates typical Fela use cases. It teaches all important parts, step by step with simple examples. If you already know other CSS in JS solutions and are just switching to Fela, you might not need to do the whole workshop, but it still provides useful information to get started quickly.
There are tons of useful packages maintained within this repository including plugins, enhancers, bindings and tools that can be used together with Fela. Check the Ecosystem documentation for a quick overview.
Apart from all the packages managed within this repository, there are many community third-party projects that are worth mentioning:
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This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.
We highly appreciate any contribution.
For more information follow the contribution guide.
Also, please read our code of conduct.
Fela is licensed under the MIT License.
Documentation is licensed under Creative Common License.
Created with ♥ by @rofrischmann and all the great contributors.
FAQs
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