---
title: "CSS-in-JS for React: Linaria vs. Styled Components"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/css-in-js-for-react-linaria-vs-styled-components-le-bskcsx
source_url: https://blog.openreplay.com/css-in-js-solutions-for-react-linaria-vs-styled-components/
type: article
source: "asayer"
published: 2022-10-06T00:47:36.898Z
updated: 2022-10-06T00:47:36.897Z
tags: ["react", "javascript", "performance", "github", "css", "styled-components"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 48
comments: 3
language: en
---

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# CSS-in-JS for React: Linaria vs. Styled Components

**[asayer](https://daily.dev/sources/asayer)** · 7 min read · 48 upvotes · 3 comments

## Summary

Linaria is one of the most popular CSS-in-JS solutions. Styled-components enables you to write actual CSS code to style your components. It also creates a layer of abstraction between components and styles, thereby eliminating the direct mapping between them. It offers many features, which include: Automatic critical CSS and Code Splitting and CodeSplitting. It also enables code splitting.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ghost** · 1 upvotes

> Linaria got most of the features covered!

**@likapa** · 1 upvotes

> What is diff with tailwind?

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