@emotion/react

> Simple styling in React.

Flexible, performant CSS-in-JS (powers MUI).

When to choose it: You want flexible styling — css prop, object or string styles — and the library behind Material UI.

  • + Flexible APIs (css prop/object)
  • + Powers MUI
  • + Good performance
  • - Runtime cost
  • - RSC friction like other runtime CIJ
Latest version
11.14.0
Monthly downloads
73,931,629
GitHub stars
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Minified + gzip
7.9 kB
Dependencies
8
License
MIT

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