Maintainable CSS in React

with glamorous 💄

Kent C. Dodds

Utah

1 wife, 3 kids

PayPal, Inc.

@kentcdodds

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What this talk is

  • The "why" of glamorous
  • Some "whats"
  • Some "hows"

What this talk is not

  • A library you can use without React... (mostly...)

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Let's talk about CSS in JS for a sec

Our Component:

JavaScript + HTML = JSX

class Toggle extends Component {
  state = { toggledOn: false };

  handleToggleClick = () => {
    this.setState(
      ({ toggledOn }) => ({ toggledOn: !toggledOn }),
      (...args) => {
        this.props.onToggle(this.state.toggledOn);
      },
    );
  };

  render() {
    const { children } = this.props;
    const { toggledOn } = this.state;
    const active = toggledOn ? 'active' : '';
    return (
      <button
        className={`btn btn-primary ${active}`}
        onClick={this.handleToggleClick}
      >
        {children}
      </button>
    );
  }
}

export default Toggle;

Components!

import { PrimaryButton } from './css-buttons';

class Toggle extends Component {
  state = { toggledOn: false };

  handleToggleClick = () => {
    this.setState(
      ({ toggledOn }) => ({ toggledOn: !toggledOn }),
      (...args) => {
        this.props.onToggle(this.state.toggledOn);
      },
    );
  };

  render() {
    const { children } = this.props;
    const { toggledOn } = this.state;
    const active = toggledOn ? 'active' : '';
    return (
      <PrimaryButton
        active={active}
        onClick={this.handleToggleClick}
      >
        {children}
      </PrimaryButton>
    );
  }
}

export default Toggle;

Components!

function AppButton({ className = '', active, ...props }) {
  return (
    <button
      className={`btn ${className} ${active ? 'active' : ''}`}
      {...props}
    />
  );
}

function PrimaryButton({ className = '', ...props }) {
  return <AppButton className={`btn-primary ${className}`} {...props} />;
}

export default AppButton;
export { PrimaryButton };

CSS? Where are the styles?

CSS? 🤔

.btn {
  display: inline-block;
  font-weight: 400;
  line-height: 1.25;
  text-align: center;
  white-space: nowrap;
  vertical-align: middle;
  user-select: none;
  border: 1px solid transparent;
  padding: .5rem 1rem;
  font-size: 1rem;
  border-radius: .25rem;
  transition: all .2s ease-in-out;
}
.btn.btn-primary {
  color: #fff;
  background-color: #0275d8;
  border-color: #0275d8;
}
.btn-primary:hover, .btn-primary.active {
  background-color: #025aa5;
  border-color: #01549b;
}
  1. Conventions?
  2. Who's using these styles?
  3. Can I change these styles?
  4. Can I delete these styles?

CSS?

Pit of Success

a well-designed system makes it easy to do the right things and annoying (but not impossible) to do the wrong things.

Convention

Using conventions is just us compensating for not having a wide enough pit of success.

Components

Default

Styled

Unstyled

Focus

Toggled

Components

What is a UI component made of?

HTML

CSS

JS

Component

Remember our CSS?

<style>
  .btn {
    display: inline-block;
    font-weight: 400;
    line-height: 1.25;
    text-align: center;
    white-space: nowrap;
    vertical-align: middle;
    user-select: none;
    border: 1px solid transparent;
    padding: .5rem 1rem;
    font-size: 1rem;
    border-radius: .25rem;
    transition: all .2s ease-in-out;
  }
  .btn.btn-primary {
    color: #fff;
    background-color: #0275d8;
    border-color: #0275d8;
  }
  .btn-primary:hover, .btn-primary.active {
    background-color: #025aa5;
    border-color: #01549b;
  }
</style>
<script>
  function AppButton({ className = '', active, ...props }) {
    return (
      <button
        className={`btn ${className} ${active ? 'active' : ''}`}
        {...props}
      />
    );
  }

  function PrimaryButton({ className = '', ...props }) {
    return <AppButton className={`btn-primary ${className}`} {...props} />;
  }

  export default AppButton;
  export { PrimaryButton };
</script>

Glamor!

import { css } from 'glamor';

const appButtonClassName = css({
  display: 'inline-block',
  fontWeight: '400',
  lineHeight: '1.25',
  textAlign: 'center',
  whiteSpace: 'nowrap',
  verticalAlign: 'middle',
  userSelect: 'none',
  border: '1px solid transparent',
  padding: '.5rem 1rem',
  fontSize: '1rem',
  borderRadius: '.25rem',
  transition: 'all .2s ease-in-out',
});

const highlightStyles = {
  backgroundColor: '#025aa5',
  borderColor: '#01549b',
};

const primaryButtonClassName = css({
  color: '#fff',
  backgroundColor: '#0275d8',
  borderColor: '#0275d8',
  ':hover': highlightStyles,
});

const activeClassName = css(highlightStyles);

function AppButton({ className = '', active, ...props }) {
  return (
    <button
      className={`${appButtonClassName} ${className} ${active ? activeClassName : ''}`}
      {...props}
    />
  );
}

function PrimaryButton({ className = '', ...props }) {
  return (
    <AppButton
      className={`${primaryButtonClassName} ${className}`}
      {...props}
    />
  );
}

export default AppButton;
export { PrimaryButton };

Enter glamorous 💄 

import glamorous from 'glamorous';

const AppButton = glamorous.button({
  display: 'inline-block',
  fontWeight: '400',
  lineHeight: '1.25',
  textAlign: 'center',
  whiteSpace: 'nowrap',
  verticalAlign: 'middle',
  userSelect: 'none',
  border: '1px solid transparent',
  padding: '.5rem 1rem',
  fontSize: '1rem',
  borderRadius: '.25rem',
  transition: 'all .2s ease-in-out',
});

const highlightStyles = {
  backgroundColor: '#025aa5',
  borderColor: '#01549b',
};

const PrimaryButton = glamorous(AppButton)(
  {
    color: '#fff',
    backgroundColor: '#0275d8',
    borderColor: '#0275d8',
    ':hover': highlightStyles,
  },
  ({ active }) => (active ? highlightStyles : null),
);

export default AppButton;
export { PrimaryButton };

Existing CSS

A Nicer API

Media Queries

Animations

Theming

Server Side Rendering

Testing

 

jest-glamor-react

 

📸

Performance

Resources

Thank you!

Maintainable CSS with React

By Kent C. Dodds

Maintainable CSS with React

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