It's a really nice way to have nicely typed components that fit into nice simple, readable JSX. Especially if you like to build design system style elements that have variations driven by props. It also lets you easily write extendable base level components, restyle these and respect types etc all without having to setup any FC<> components as wrappers (visibly). The way it handles computed styles is great too. In short, it makes easy: Extendable base styles / components Themes Dark mode Calculated styles based on props Cleaner JSX These things are all possible without styled-components but I think the workflow overall fits very well. If you've found yourself many times building style arrays full of ternary operators, creating mess in your JSX then you may find this workflow styled-components helps you a lot. Answer from Cookizza on reddit.com
styled-components
styled-components.com › docs › basics
Styled Components Basic
We also support more complex styles (like transform), which would normally be an array, and shorthands (e.g. for margin) thanks to css-to-react-native!
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styled-components - npm
1 week ago - styled-components is compatible with both React (for web) and React Native – meaning it's the perfect choice even for truly universal apps! It also supports React Server Components (RSC) through automatic runtime detection.
» npm install styled-components
Provide setup guide for React Native + Typescript
Upgrading from 5 to 6 on React Native is definitely not straightforward, it's confusing since there's no documentation (that I could find, the only one available is stuck at v5). Could you please provide an up to date guide to setup Styled Components on React Native? More on github.com
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February 20, 2024css - styled-components size and performance in react-native - Stack Overflow
I just started to experiment with react native and was following some official documents. What i understood from style and size parts of official documentation is that, styling system is very sim... More on stackoverflow.com
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July 15, 2022How often do you use Styled Components ?
I think Styled Components are a great place to start when learning React. However, SCSS modules are way cleaner in my opinion, and they can be modularized to different components. Plus, for me, I like to keep styles on their own sheet. But, do what feels right, pleases your client/senior, and follows general best practices! If you like SC, use it! More on reddit.com
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r/reactnative on Reddit: Whats are the advantages of styled components in react native?
December 1, 2021 -
Hi, This is a question out of curiosity. I see that styled components get a lot of attention and I am curious about your opinion about it. Why wouldn't you just use stylesheet objects to style your components? Is it a performance thing? Is it because its easier to read?
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Over native styling with Stylesheet (which if I remember, actually does nothing but return the object anyway)? Nothing. There is literally 0 advantage in react native. It lets people who are afraid of the “weird” syntax of react native styling stay in their comfort zone and continue to use css syntax. I’ve had some instances where using styled components didn’t even work like it was supposed to and had to use native styling anyway. 1/10 would not recommend.
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It's a really nice way to have nicely typed components that fit into nice simple, readable JSX. Especially if you like to build design system style elements that have variations driven by props. It also lets you easily write extendable base level components, restyle these and respect types etc all without having to setup any FC<> components as wrappers (visibly). The way it handles computed styles is great too. In short, it makes easy: Extendable base styles / components Themes Dark mode Calculated styles based on props Cleaner JSX These things are all possible without styled-components but I think the workflow overall fits very well. If you've found yourself many times building style arrays full of ternary operators, creating mess in your JSX then you may find this workflow styled-components helps you a lot.
GitHub
github.com › styled-components › styled-components
GitHub - styled-components/styled-components: Fast, expressive styling for React. Server components, client components, streaming SSR, React Native—one API.
Fast, expressive styling for React. Server components, client components, streaming SSR, React Native—one API. Style React components with real CSS, scoped automatically and delivered only when needed.
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Medium
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Implementing and Using Styled Components in React Native: A Complete Guide | by Felipe Dumont | Medium
September 26, 2024 - In React Native app development, styling is crucial for ensuring a good user experience and maintaining organized code. While React Native’s native StyleSheet works well, developers often need more flexibility and reusability. This is where styled-components comes in—a popular and powerful library for React and React Native that allows us to write styles as components.
LogRocket
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How to use styled-components with React Native - LogRocket Blog
June 4, 2024 - This means that rather than creating a component, then creating a class using StyleSheet, and then applying that class to the component; you can create the component with the predefined styles without separately declaring style classes.
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reactnative.dev › docs › style
Style · React Native
February 20, 2026 - All of the core components accept a prop named style. The style names and values usually match how CSS works on the web, except names are written using camel casing, e.g. backgroundColor rather than background-color.
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React Native with Styled Component - Blog by Jason Kang
npx react-native init AwesomeTSProject --version 0.60.2 --template react-native-template-typescript · ##2. Install Styled Components You have to install both the regular one and the one that supports type if you were to use TypeScript yarn add styled-components @types/styled-components
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@types/styled-components-react-native - npm
November 7, 2023 - TypeScript definitions for styled-components-react-native. Latest version: 5.2.5, last published: 2 years ago. Start using @types/styled-components-react-native in your project by running `npm i @types/styled-components-react-native`. There are 35 other projects in the npm registry using ...
» npm install @types/styled-components-react-native
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How to use styled components with React Native
By using styled-components, you are defining your styles by creating a new component from an already existing component. For example, you can create a Layout component that inherits properties from React Native’s View component.
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styled-components
Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress
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Styling your React Native App with Styled-Components: Reusability and Flexibility - DEV Community
April 29, 2020 - So whenever the app tries to render a component will not crash due to the missing of some props. The use of CSS Pseudo-elements is so important in whatever web app and therefore a React Native app as well. However, they don’t work for React Native either you use StyleSheet API or inline styling.
GitHub
github.com › styled-components › styled-components › issues › 4261
Provide setup guide for React Native + Typescript · Issue #4261 · styled-components/styled-components
February 20, 2024 - Upgrading from 5 to 6 on React Native is definitely not straightforward, it's confusing since there's no documentation (that I could find, the only one available is stuck at v5). Could you please provide an up to date guide to setup Styled Components on React Native?
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Fast, expressive styling for React. Server components, client components, streaming SSR, React Native—one API. styled-components/styled-components’s past year of commit activity
OpenReplay
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Theming React Native Applications with Styled Components
March 2, 2022 - Styled components is CSS in JS solution for styling React and React native applications. This means you can write CSS in your JavaScript code rather than keeping styles in a separate stylesheet.
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Styled Components for React Native the way they should have been - DEV Community
December 21, 2021 - To be honest, I've always felt that using 💅🏼styled-components to style View, Text, TouchableOpacity and other native components was very cumbersome. React Native does not really work with DOM, so there is no real css engine underneath.
GitHub
github.com › MrLoh › styled-native-components
GitHub - MrLoh/styled-native-components: React Native styled-components alternative, that supports resolving theme variables and nested styles
A Styled Components alternative for React Native (Web), that supports color variables, rem, vh, vw, media queries, nested style definitions for contentContainerStyle, and web centric CSS concepts ported to React Native Web.
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LogRocket
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Building React Native applications with Styled System - LogRocket Blog
June 4, 2024 - One of the most popular implementations of CSS-in-JS is styled-components, a library that enables us to create components with local styles. In this article, we’ll focus on styling a React Native application using styled-components and Styled ...
Smashing Magazine
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How To Use Styled-Components In React — Smashing Magazine
July 23, 2020 - This can be a hindrance when used ... (known as localization). In React’s own words, styled components are “visual primitives for components”, and their goal is to give us a flexible way to style components....
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First of all, you mention that "All dimensions in React Native are unitless" but that isn't quite right because they are represented in pixels.
You can do simple math to change those fixed values across devices. For example, let say you have some card component you can use:
import { Dimensions } from 'react-native';
const { width } from Dimensions.get('window');
Your style:
{
height: width * 0.3,
width: width * 0.5,
}
You can instead use this amazing package I have found that is pretty good and awesome for scaling tablets react-native-size-matters
You can do stuff like this:
import { ScaledSheet } from 'react-native-size-matters';
const styles = ScaledSheet.create({
container: {
width: '100@s',
height: '200@vs'
}
});
where 100@s means scale(100) and 200@vs means verticalScale(200), super cool. For more information read their docs.
You can also read this awesome Medium blog post Scaling React Native apps for Tablets
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Answering your first question
What they mean by unitless is that pixel density is calculated depending on target device pixel density. So, 1px will vary in real device size depending on the device's pixel density, it will mean 2px in a retina display and 3px on newer 'plus' sized devices.
There's a nice table for what 1px means in each Apple device here:
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ios/icons-and-images/image-size-and-resolution/
For Android devices, to simplify the whole thing, since the android ecosystem has a lot more devices with different resolutions, the react-native team decided to stick with Apple's standard and the framework decides for us what best files and resolutions apply, being that 1x, 2x or 3x.
In essence, that all means that in your style definitions, you will use pixels as being points. If your origin image is 100 pixels for non-retina displays, just define it as being 100px and provide also a version with 200px with @2x appended to the end of the file name. React will know what file to use.
Check this answer for more info on that:
React Native Responsive Font Size
Answering your second question
Not at all.
At least not more of a performance hit we already have on using react-native and JS. The JS code (and styled-components code for that matter) we write is used to manipulate compiled and native code for the specifics platform, so all rendering is done close to metal thus having a very good performance. The JS code the app has to run obviously is less performant than it would be if written in all native code, but it's fast enough to not even make a difference in the end.