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Should you use CSS in JS?

Well... it depends! Are you just starting out? The most important things to look at are: * simplicity * ease of debugging You want to be able to understand how CSS relates to a React component without too much "magic" happening. CSS in JS libraries usually generate class names at runtime. This

Things to consider when choosing a React styling framework

styled-components, emotion, glamorous, aphrodite, radium, JSS … and the list goes on! What are some things you should keep an eye on when evaluating them? User base * How many downloads does the library have so far? * What are the trends - is the library gaining or losing traction? I find npmtrends.

Understand the React styling paradigms

One of the first choices you need to make when starting a new project using React is what library to use for styling your components. There are a ton of options to choose from and the community hasn't yet reached a consensus of what is the best way to style

3 talks you should watch on styling React components

Do you ever wonder what the hype is about all these styling libraries and what their point is? CSS Modules, Styled components, Radium, glamourous, JSS, jsxstyle - you name it. It’s hard to get an overview of how they came about and what each is trying to solve. But

Two ways to know if you should use a framework or stick to jQuery for now

I do not understand how can a framework help me, when it seems to me that almost everything I try to achieve in a framework can simply be done in jquery with few lines of code, like calling a rest service with Ajax and then outputting the result There are

Use ES6 modules in the browser today with SystemJS

It's super frustrating that ES6 module syntax is officially part of the language specification, yet no browser supports it yet! So most of the times, if you just want to use ES6 modules, you need to use something like Webpack or Browserify, adding one more step to do before you

Are your Chrome Timeline Recordings inconsistent?

You know you have a memory leak. So you set out to record a Timeline with Chrome DevTools to see if the memory is cleaned up. But the results are so inconsistent! Sometimes the listeners or node count is going down, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes the node count does not