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CSS Blocks vs styled-components: What are the differences?
Developers describe CSS Blocks as "A component-oriented CSS authoring system by LinkedIn". By combining an opinionated authoring system, build-time analysis and rewriting of templates, and a new type of CSS optimizer, css-blocks breathes new power and ease of use into the technologies and best practices that stylesheet developers already know and love. On the other hand, styled-components is detailed as "Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress". Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress đź’….
CSS Blocks and styled-components belong to "JavaScript Framework Components" category of the tech stack.
CSS Blocks and styled-components are both open source tools. It seems that styled-components with 24.7K GitHub stars and 1.46K forks on GitHub has more adoption than CSS Blocks with 6.07K GitHub stars and 141 GitHub forks.
Storybook, along with React, styled-components, and Atomic Design, is the perfect tool to boost your front end development productivity. It helps you develop isolated presentational components with a super fast hot reload. It allows to test your props with knobs. Finally you compose, and reuse your components in your app.
You can host your storybook as a static website and share it with the other devs, so they are aware of the components already available in your library, and how to use them.
You can share the same with your UI/UX team, and converge towards a common design system.
You can even run visual regression tests on your library, with storyshots.
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Pros of CSS Blocks
Pros of styled-components
- Very easy to use and integrate11
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