CSS-in-JS

Libraries that help integrate CSS into JavaScript code.

Rankings

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InterestI
UsageU
AwarenessA

Satisfaction, interest, usage, and awareness ratio rankings.

2019202020192020Styled ComponentsJSSStyled JSXRadiumEmotionCSS ModulesStyled ComponentsJSSStyled JSXRadiumEmotionCSS ModulesStyled SystemStitchesStyletronFelaLinariaAstroturf85%82%59%58%67%68%27%18%87%80%86%87%80%69%41%40%64%57%

Technologies with less than 10% awareness not included. Each ratio is defined as follows:

  • Satisfaction: would use again / (would use again + would not use again)
  • Interest: want to learn / (want to learn + not interested)
  • Usage: (would use again + would not use again) / total
  • Awareness: (total - never heard) / total

Experience Over Time

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Overview of opinions on the technologies surveyed over time.

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Styled Components

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Styled JSX

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Emotion

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Technologies with only one year of data are not included.

Positive/Negative Split

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This chart splits positive (“want to learn”, “would use again”) vs negative (“not interested”, “would not use again”) experiences on both sides of a central axis.

Bar thickness represents the number of respondents aware of a technology.

Would not useNot interestedWould use againInterestedAwareness60%40%20%0%20%40%60%80%60%40%20%0%20%40%60%80%CSS ModulesStyled ComponentsStyled SystemEmotionStyled JSXLinariaStitchesJSSAstroturfStyletronFelaRadium

Styled Components
Completion percentage: 80.5% (9255)
Completion percentage: 80.5% (9255)

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Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress

2019

12.7% 12.7% 33.7% 33.7% 26.7% 26.7% 21% 21%

2020

9.3% 9.3% 13.6% 13.6% 42.3% 42.3% 20.5% 20.5% 14.3% 14.3%
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JSS
Completion percentage: 80.6% (9267)
Completion percentage: 80.6% (9267)

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2019

15% 15% 9.1% 9.1% 69.1% 69.1%

2020

20.8% 20.8% 8.3% 8.3% 12.2% 12.2% 52.6% 52.6%
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Styled JSX
Completion percentage: 80.8% (9282)
Completion percentage: 80.8% (9282)

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Full CSS support for JSX without compromises

2019

17% 17% 9.2% 9.2% 13.6% 13.6% 55.7% 55.7%

2020

8.4% 8.4% 21.2% 21.2% 18% 18% 14.6% 14.6% 37.8% 37.8%
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Radium
Completion percentage: 80.6% (9264)
Completion percentage: 80.6% (9264)

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2019

11.3% 11.3% 82.2% 82.2%

2020

11.9% 11.9% 81.3% 81.3%
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Emotion
Completion percentage: 80.8% (9281)
Completion percentage: 80.8% (9281)

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CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition

2019

8.5% 8.5% 11% 11% 72.9% 72.9%

2020

12.7% 12.7% 12.8% 12.8% 13.5% 13.5% 57.6% 57.6%
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CSS Modules
Completion percentage: 80.9% (9293)
Completion percentage: 80.9% (9293)

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2019

7.8% 7.8% 21.3% 21.3% 30.6% 30.6% 36.7% 36.7%

2020

9.1% 9.1% 31.4% 31.4% 27.4% 27.4% 27.4% 27.4%
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Styled System
Completion percentage: 80.6% (9268)
Completion percentage: 80.6% (9268)

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2020

8% 8% 78.5% 78.5%
Would not use
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Would use again
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Never heard
We asked members of the CSS community to share their “pick of the year”

My 2020 Pick: Fela

Fela is an amazing piece of software. It’s pretty powerful, relatively easy to use and very performant

We asked members of the CSS community to share their “pick of the year”

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Stitches
Completion percentage: 80.7% (9270)
Completion percentage: 80.7% (9270)

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2020

91.9% 91.9%
Would not use
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Would use again
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Styletron
Completion percentage: 80.8% (9281)
Completion percentage: 80.8% (9281)

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Toolkit for component-oriented styling

2020

93.2% 93.2%
Would not use
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Fela
Completion percentage: 80.8% (9284)
Completion percentage: 80.8% (9284)

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State-Driven Styling in JavaScript

2020

94.2% 94.2%
Would not use
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Linaria
Completion percentage: 80.7% (9277)
Completion percentage: 80.7% (9277)

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Zero-runtime CSS in JS library

2020

92.2% 92.2%
Would not use
Not interested
Would use again
Interested
Never heard

Astroturf
Completion percentage: 80.7% (9271)
Completion percentage: 80.7% (9271)

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An "artificial" CSS-in-JS for those that want it all.

2020

93.7% 93.7%
Would not use
Not interested
Would use again
Interested
Never heard

Other Tools
Completion percentage: 0.7% (84)
Completion percentage: 0.7% (84)

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Other tools in this category (freeform answers).

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Overall Happiness

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On a scale of one (very unhappy) to five (very happy), how happy are developers with the current overall state of this category?

0%10%20%30%40%50%Percentage of UsersVery UnhappyUnhappyNeutralHappyVery HappyHappiness0%10%20%30%40%50%4.7%4.7%10%10%50.5%50.5%26.7%26.7%8%8%

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