styled-components

styled-components allows you to add styles to your application that are written with a mixture of JavaScript and CSS using a technique called CSS-in-JS.

Helps keep the concerns of styling and element architecture separated and make components more readable without worrying about class name collisions.

Example implementation shown below.

components/header/styled.ts

import styled from 'styled-components'
const Container = styled.div<{isLarge: boolean}>`  padding: "50px";  font-size: ${({ isLarge }) => (isLarge ? "36px" : "18px")};`;
const Title = styled.div`  margin-right: 50px;  color: ${({ theme }) => theme.colors.cancelRed};`;
const Subtitle = styled(Title)`  margin-right: 30px;`;

components/header/index.tsx

import React from "react";
import { Container, Title, Information } from "./styled";
export const Header: React.FC = () => {  return (    <Container isLarge>      <Title />      <Subtitle />    </Container>  );};

Adapting based on props

Props can be passed to styled components to customize a component dynamically. When setting the isLarge prop to true, we are swapping out its font-size.

const Container = styled.div<{isLarge: boolean}>`  padding: "50px";  font-size: ${({ isLarge }) => (isLarge ? "36px" : "18px")};`;

Extending Styles

You can extend components with style if you want to create a similar one, styled slightly differently. To easily make a new component that inherits the styling of another, just wrap it in the styled() constructor.

const Subtitle = styled(Title)`  margin-right: 30px;`;

Theming

styled-components has full theming support by exporting a <ThemeProvider> wrapper component. This component provides a theme to all components underneath itself via the context API. In the render tree all styled-components will have access to the provided theme.

A theme can also be passed down to a component using the theme prop.

const Title = styled.div`  margin-right: 50px;  color: ${({ theme }) => theme.colors.darkGrey};`; 

theme prop gets values from definitions/styled-components folder. You can add any css properties theme files in order to use from all styled-components.

Dark Mode

Dark mode feature serving as a ready to use in created project with styled-component plugin.

You customize colors at definitions/styled-components folder:

The first is common.ts, which will contain our base styling, and the others are dark.ts and light.ts, which will include variables for our dark and light themes.

definitions/styled-components/dark.ts

const dark: DefaultTheme = {  colors: {    ...common.colors,    body: "#363537",    toggleBorder: "#556678",    gradient: "linear-gradient(#091236, #1E215D)",    background: "#808080",    textColor: "#FFFFFF",  },};

definitions/styled-components/light.ts

const light: DefaultTheme = {  colors: {    ...common.colors,    body: "#E2E2E2",    toggleBorder: "#ABB7C4",    gradient: "linear-gradient(#39598A, #79D7ED)",    background: "#FFFFFF",    textColor: "#000000",  },};

Set the colors with same key value at both file and then use with theme props in styled components. Defined colors changes when invoke toggle function from definitions/styled-components/index.ts.

components/Header/styled.ts

import styled from "styled-components";
export const Container = styled.div`  background-color: ${({ theme }) => theme.colors.body};`;

note

All needed dark mode configurations and files adds by CLI if styled-component plugin selected as CSS Preprocessor during project creation phase.

Styled System

Styled System is a collection of utility functions that add style props to your components and allows you to control styles based on a global theme object with typographic scales, colors, and layout properties.

tip

We are serving styled-system as a optional plugin with styled-components.

Example usage:

styledSystemExample/styled.ts

import styled from "styled-components";import { border, color, layout, space, typography } from "styled-system";
export const Card = styled.div`  ${border}  ${color}  ${layout}  ${space}`;

styledSystemExample/index.ts

import React from "react";import { Card } from "./styled";
export const StyledSystemExample: React.FC = () => {  return (    <Card bg="wheat" maxWidth="20rem" borderRadius={10} mx="auto" mt="32px">  );};

How do I use styled-components with Create React App?

We recommend to check official document to use styled-component to your existing project.