--- title: Theming styled-components with CSS custom properties description: With Vue, I used to write pure CSS in the old-school style tag. With React, I wanted to experience something different, so I decided to give styled-components... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/theming-styled-components-with-css-custom-properties-pwa0rfi8v twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Theming styled-components with CSS custom properties | daily.dev og:description: With Vue, I used to write pure CSS in the old-school style tag. With React, I wanted to experience something different, so I decided to give styled-components... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/theming-styled-components-with-css-custom-properties-pwa0rfi8v og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pWa0rFI8v.png og:image:alt: Theming styled-components with CSS custom properties og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Theming styled-components with CSS custom properties **[daily.dev](https://daily.dev/sources/daily)** · 10 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary With Vue, I used to write pure CSS in the old-school style tag. With React, I wanted to experience something different, so I decided to give styled-components a try. It helps to keep a maintainable styling which is both easy to refactor and expand. But if you overuse their props system, your styling can become less readable and messy. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@idoshamun** · 1 upvotes > Hey, I'm the author of this article 👋 > Feel free to ask my anything **@hashinclude72** · 0 upvotes > is their any performance difference between them? --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/theming-styled-components-with-css-custom-properties-pwa0rfi8v) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Theming styled-components with CSS custom properties","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/theming-styled-components-with-css-custom-properties-pwa0rfi8v","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/theming-styled-components-with-css-custom-properties-pwa0rfi8v"},"datePublished":"2020-08-25T12:51:48.648Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":"With Vue, I used to write pure CSS in the old-school style tag. 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