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React Projects

by Roy Derks
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
474 pages
10h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Styling in React with styled-components

So far, we've been using CSS files to add styling to our React components. However, this forces us to import these files across different components, which makes our code less reusable. Therefore, we'll add the styled-components package to the project, which allows us to write CSS inside JavaScript (so-called CSS-in-JS) and create components.

By doing this, we'll get more flexibility out of styling our components, will be able to prevent duplication or overlapping of styles due to classNames, and we'll add dynamic styling to components with ease. All of this can be done using the same syntax we used for CSS, right inside our React components.

The first step is installing styled-components using npm ...

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