---
title: "Demystifying styled-components"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/demystifying-styled-components-wwqmaj3rs
source_url: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/demystifying-styled-components/
type: article
source: "CSS-Tricks"
published: 2021-07-27T01:03:37.670Z
updated: 2026-03-15T07:11:23.048Z
tags: ["css", "general-programming", "webdev"]
reading_time: 12
upvotes: 33
comments: 7
language: en
---

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# Demystifying styled-components

**[CSS-Tricks](https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks)** · 12 min read · 33 upvotes · 7 comments

## Summary

styled-components is a tool that takes arbitrary CSS and assigns it to a React component. By demystifying it, we'll be able to diagnose and fix weird CSS issues with way less frustration. This article is written for experienced React developers. It may surprise you to learn that styled-Components doesn't do anything with the CSS we added to it.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/demystifying-styled-components/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@pedrohduca** · 2 upvotes

> Amazing blog, very cool design and animations!!! I love it

**@je\_saura** · 2 upvotes

> Josh's posts are always top tier!

**@idoshamun** · 2 upvotes

> This is sweet! This article will teach you how to build styled-components. Although I decided to stop using styled-components due to performance issues.

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