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Modern Front-End Development for Rails
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Modern Front-End Development for Rails

by Noel Rappin
June 2021
Intermediate to advanced
398 pages
9h 35m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Using CSS and React Components

Where Stimulus encourages using the markup you are already writing, therefore keeping CSS in its own separate files, React encourages thinking about CSS and code together. Once you get in the habit of thinking of your page as made up of a number of different React components, it’s only a small step to imagine those components as containing their own CSS for features that are specific to that component.

Including CSS with React code is such a common thought that there are oodles of libraries that handle this. I’m going to talk about one of these libraries that has an interesting way to insert CSS into your React code: styled-components.

What Is the styled-components Library?

The styled-components library allows ...

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