[Package] styled-components

Motivation

Automatic critical CSS:
styled-components keeps track of which components are rendered on a page and injects their styles and nothing else, fully automatically. Combined with code splitting, this means your users load the least amount of code necessary.
No class name bugs:
styled-components generates unique class names for your styles.
Simple dynamic styling:
adapting the styling of a component based on its props or a global theme.
Automatic vendor prefixing

Getting Started

Utilises tagged template literals to create normal React components, that has your styles attached to them.

// Create a Title component that'll render an <h1> tag with some styles
const Title = styled.h1`
  font-size: 1.5em;
  text-align: center;
  color: palevioletred;
`;

// Create a Wrapper component that'll render a <section> tag with some styles
const Wrapper = styled.section`
  padding: 4em;
  background: papayawhip;
`;

// Use Title and Wrapper like any other React component – except they're styled!
render(
  <Wrapper>
    <Title>
      Hello World!
    </Title>
  </Wrapper>
);

Adapting based on props
- Simple element (e.g. styled.div) -> styled-components passes through any known HTML attribute to the DOM
- Custom React component (e.g. styled(MyComponent)) -> styled-components passes through all props.

const Button = styled.button`
  /* Adapt the colors based on primary prop */
  background: ${props => props.primary ? "palevioletred" : "white"};
  color: ${props => props.primary ? "white" : "palevioletred"};

`;

render(
  <div>
    <Button>Normal</Button>
    <Button primary>Primary</Button>
  </div>
);


// Create an Input component that'll render an <input> tag with some styles
const Input = styled.input`
  padding: 0.5em;
  margin: 0.5em;
  color: ${props => props.inputColor || "palevioletred"};
  background: papayawhip;
  border: none;
  border-radius: 3px;
`;

// Render a styled text input with the standard input color, and one with a custom input color
render(
  <div>
    <Input defaultValue="@probablyup" type="text" />
    <Input defaultValue="@geelen" type="text" inputColor="rebeccapurple" />
  </div>
);

Extending Styles
- Tweak slightly based on existing component
- “as” to dynamically swap out the element tag

// The Base Button
const Button = styled.button`
  color: palevioletred;
  font-size: 1em;
  margin: 1em;
  padding: 0.25em 1em;
  border: 2px solid palevioletred;
  border-radius: 3px;
`;

// A new component based on Button, but with some override styles
const TomatoButton = styled(Button)`
  color: tomato;
  border-color: tomato;
`;

render(
  <div>
    <Button>Normal Button</Button>
    <TomatoButton>Tomato Button</TomatoButton>
    <TomatoButton as="a" href="#">Link with Tomato Button styles</TomatoButton>
  </div>
);

Define Styled Components outside of the render method
- It is important to define your styled components outside of the render method, otherwise it will be recreated on every single render pass
Pseudoelements, pseudoselectors, and nesting
- & a single ampersand refers to all instances of the component;
- && a double ampersand refers to an instance of the component (?)
- && a double ampersand alone has a special behavior called a “precedence boost”
Attaching additional props

const Input = styled.input.attrs(props => ({
  // we can define static props
  type: "text",

  // or we can define dynamic ones
  size: props.size || "1em",
}))`
  color: palevioletred;
  font-size: 1em;
  border: 2px solid palevioletred;
  border-radius: 3px;

  /* here we use the dynamically computed prop */
  margin: ${props => props.size};
  padding: ${props => props.size};
`;

render(
  <div>
    <Input placeholder="A small text input" />
    <br />
    <Input placeholder="A bigger text input" size="2em" />
  </div>
);

Animations

/ Create the keyframes
const rotate = keyframes`
  from {
    transform: rotate(0deg);
  }

  to {
    transform: rotate(360deg);
  }
`;

// Here we create a component that will rotate everything we pass in over two seconds
const Rotate = styled.div`
  display: inline-block;
  animation: ${rotate} 2s linear infinite;
  padding: 2rem 1rem;
  font-size: 1.2rem;
`;

render(
  <Rotate>&lt; 💅🏾 &gt;</Rotate>
);


//  Use the css helper for shared style fragments to enable code-split
const rotate = keyframes``

// ❌ This will throw an error!
const styles = `
  animation: ${rotate} 2s linear infinite;
`

// ✅ This will work as intended
const styles = css`
  animation: ${rotate} 2s linear infinite;
`

Advanced

Theming

// Define our button, but with the use of props.theme this time
const Button = styled.button`
  font-size: 1em;
  margin: 1em;
  padding: 0.25em 1em;
  border-radius: 3px;

  /* Color the border and text with theme.main */
  color: ${props => props.theme.main};
  border: 2px solid ${props => props.theme.main};
`;

// We are passing a default theme for Buttons that arent wrapped in the ThemeProvider
Button.defaultProps = {
  theme: {
    main: "palevioletred"
  }
}

// Define what props.theme will look like
const theme = {
  main: "mediumseagreen"
};

render(
  <div>
    <Button>Normal</Button>

    <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
      <Button>Themed</Button>
    </ThemeProvider>
  </div>
);

// Function themes -> pass a function for the theme prop
// Define our button, but with the use of props.theme this time
const Button = styled.button`
  color: ${props => props.theme.fg};
  border: 2px solid ${props => props.theme.fg};
  background: ${props => props.theme.bg};

  font-size: 1em;
  margin: 1em;
  padding: 0.25em 1em;
  border-radius: 3px;
`;

// Define our `fg` and `bg` on the theme
const theme = {
  fg: "palevioletred",
  bg: "white"
};

// This theme swaps `fg` and `bg`
const invertTheme = ({ fg, bg }) => ({
  fg: bg,
  bg: fg
});

render(
  <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
    <div>
      <Button>Default Theme</Button>

      <ThemeProvider theme={invertTheme}>
        <Button>Inverted Theme</Button>
      </ThemeProvider>
    </div>
  </ThemeProvider>
);

// Overwrite theme without nested <ThemeProvider>
// Define our button
const Button = styled.button`
  font-size: 1em;
  margin: 1em;
  padding: 0.25em 1em;
  border-radius: 3px;

  /* Color the border and text with theme.main */
  color: ${props => props.theme.main};
  border: 2px solid ${props => props.theme.main};
`;

// Define what main theme will look like
const theme = {
  main: "mediumseagreen"
};

render(
  <div>
    <Button theme={{ main: "royalblue" }}>Ad hoc theme</Button>
    <ThemeProvider theme={theme}>
      <div>
        <Button>Themed</Button>
        <Button theme={{ main: "darkorange" }}>Overridden</Button>
      </div>
    </ThemeProvider>
  </div>
);

Refs
will give you one of two things depending on the styled target:
- the underlying DOM node (if targeting a basic element, e.g. styled.div)
- the underlying DOM node (if targeting a basic element, e.g. styled.div)

Security
- Be careful with CSS injection

Existing CSS
- Make sure your component attaches the passed-in className to a DOM node

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  render() {
    // Attach the passed-in className to the DOM node
    return <div className={`some-global-class ${this.props.className}`} />
  }
}

// Bump up the specificity of the selectors (??)
/* my-component.css */
.red-bg.red-bg {
  background-color: red;
}

Referring to other components

const Link = styled.a`
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  padding: 5px 10px;
  background: papayawhip;
  color: palevioletred;
`;

const Icon = styled.svg`
  flex: none;
  transition: fill 0.25s;
  width: 48px;
  height: 48px;

  ${Link}:hover & {
    fill: rebeccapurple;
  }
`;

const Label = styled.span`
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  line-height: 1.2;

  &::before {
    content: '◀';
    margin: 0 10px;
  }
`;

render(
  <Link href="#">
    <Icon viewBox="0 0 20 20">
      <path d="M10 15h8c1 0 2-1 2-2V3c0-1-1-2-2-2H2C1 1 0 2 0 3v10c0 1 1 2 2 2h4v4l4-4zM5 7h2v2H5V7zm4 0h2v2H9V7zm4 0h2v2h-2V7z"/>
    </Icon>
    <Label>Hovering my parent changes my style!</Label>
  </Link>
);

Style Objects

// Static object
const Box = styled.div({
  background: 'palevioletred',
  height: '50px',
  width: '50px'
});

// Adapting based on props
const PropsBox = styled.div(props => ({
  background: props.background,
  height: '50px',
  width: '50px'
}));

render(
  <div>
    <Box />
    <PropsBox background="blue" />
  </div>
);

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