117: Mitchell Hamilton - Writing CSS-in-JS with Emotion

Topics include:

• What CSS-in-JS even is
• What Emotion does differently than other CSS-in-JS libraries
• How to actually use Emotion to style your projects
• How the JSX pragma works and what it's for
• How Emotion works under the hood
• Performance
• Adding global styles to your project
• Style re-use and composition in Emotion
• Using Emotion with server-side rendering

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Links:

• Emotion
• Glam
• Glamor
• Glamorous
• Styled Components
• JSX pragma
• CSSStyleSheet.insertRule()
• Global styles in Emotion
• Server-side rendering in Emotion