Styling Alternatives

Styled-Components and Other Alternatives

Before utility classes, CSS-in-JS was React Native 36,878 's popular answer. styled-components 247,596 (https://github.com/styled-components/styled-components 41,103 ) (6.5.3) writes styles as tagged template literals, `const Card = styled.Viewpadding: 12px; `, parses the CSS at run time and themes through a React 7,897 context. Its maintainer put the library into maintenance mode in March 2025 and advised against it for new projects, so treat it as something you maintain rather than adopt. @emotion/native (11.11.0) is the same idea from the Emotion project.

A newer generation keeps the familiar StyleSheet shape or Tailwind 5,202 's vocabulary but moves the work elsewhere:

All of these are MIT-licensed.