postcss-js
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Package description
The postcss-js package allows you to use PostCSS, a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript, in a JavaScript environment. This enables the processing of CSS styles with JavaScript objects, facilitating dynamic style generation and manipulation within JavaScript projects.
Parsing CSS to JS Objects
This feature allows the conversion of CSS styles into JavaScript objects, making it easier to manipulate CSS properties and values programmatically.
const postcssJs = require('postcss-js');
const autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');
const root = postcssJs.parse({ color: 'red' });
console.log(root);Applying PostCSS Plugins
Enables the use of PostCSS plugins, such as autoprefixer, directly on JavaScript objects representing CSS styles, allowing for advanced CSS processing and manipulation.
const postcssJs = require('postcss-js');
const autoprefixer = require('autoprefixer');
const prefixer = postcssJs.sync([ autoprefixer ]);
const prefixed = prefixer({ display: 'flex' });
console.log(prefixed);Styled-components is a library for React and React Native that allows you to use component-level styles in your application. It uses tagged template literals to style your components. Unlike postcss-js, which focuses on transforming CSS with JavaScript, styled-components aim to enhance CSS for styling React component systems.
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 the CSS and CSS-in-JS approaches, providing a more integrated styling solution for React applications compared to postcss-js, which is more focused on CSS transformation and manipulation.
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs. Unlike postcss-js, which is a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript, Tailwind provides a set of utility classes to build custom designs directly in your markup, promoting a different approach to styling web applications.
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PostCSS for CSS-in-JS and styles in JS objects
The npm package postcss-js receives a total of 5,421,081 weekly downloads. As such, postcss-js popularity was classified as popular.
We found that postcss-js demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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