Styling React components

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@siddharthkp

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@siddharthkp javascript and interfaces

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CSS syntax

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React component

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What if?

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History lesson

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1990

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1996

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1996 Language for writing styles

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2003 Separation of content and styles in DOM

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2005 Semantic HTML

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2005 Semantic HTML

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2005 Semantic HTML

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2005 Semantic HTML

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2005 Semantic HTML

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2007

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2007

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2007 Isolation

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2009 OOCSS

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2009 Lego driven development - Nicole Sullivan

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2009

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20099 Components

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20099 Components

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There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton

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2010 - 2013 bem smacss suitcss rscss atomic design

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2010 - 2013 Component state

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button button--active list 2010 - 2013 Components of components

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2010 - 2013 Components of components button button--active list dropdown

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2010 - 2013

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2010 - 2013 Co-location

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2013

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2005 Semantic HTML

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2013 React components

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Learnings from 1996 - 2013 Language for writing styles - CSS Separation of content and styles in DOM Semantic HTML = Good names for elements Isolation Components Co-location

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1. The React documentation way

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1. The React documentation way - Inline Styles

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Language for writing styles - CSS Separation of content and styles Semantic HTML = Good names for elements Isolation Components Co-location No :hover :focus! 1. The React documentation way - Inline Styles

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1. The React documentation way - Inline Styles

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1. The React documentation way - Inline Styles Language for writing styles - CSS Separation of content and styles Semantic HTML = Good names for elements Isolation Components Co-location Advanced logic

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Content (HTML), styling (CSS) and interactions (JS) in one file. If you’re using React, you have access to a more powerful construct than CSS class names, you have components - Micheal Chan, @chantastic What’s so great about co-location anyways?

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Content (HTML), styling (CSS) and interactions (JS) in one file. - Convenience - Independent entity - Include a component and everything just works™ - Share + reuse components across pages and applications What’s so great about co-location anyways?

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2. Radium - better inline styles

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2. Radium - better inline styles ← ES7 decorator More info

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Language for writing styles - CSS Separation of content and styles Isolation Co-location Advanced logic 2. Radium - better inline styles

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3. Good old CSS

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3. Good old CSS Language for writing styles - CSS Separation of content and styles Isolation Co-location Advanced logic

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4. CSS Modules

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4. CSS Modules

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4. CSS Modules Language for writing styles - CSS Separation of content and styles Isolation Co-location Advanced logic

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5. Aphrodite

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5. Aphrodite Language for writing styles - CSS Separation of content and styles Isolation Co-location Advanced logic Uses !important

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6. Glamor

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6. Glamor ← ES6 spread operator More info

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6. Glamor Language for writing styles - CSS (beta) Separation of content and styles Isolation Co-location Advanced logic

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7. styled-components

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7. styled-components ← ES6 template tagged literals More info

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Language for writing styles - CSS Separation of content and styles Isolation Co-location Advanced logic Enforces container/presentation pattern 7. styled-components

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7. styled-components

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Real CSS Conventions over configuration (styled-components, zeit/next) Simple API - css constructor - attaches styles to highest element in render() Future/Feature request

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Future/Feature request

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Update: I created css-constructor to make this possible :) github.com/siddharthkp/css-constructor Future/Feature request