---
title: "Theming styled-components with CSS custom properties"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/theming-styled-components-with-css-custom-properties-pwa0rfi8v
source_url: https://daily.dev/posts/theming-styled-components-with-css-custom-properties
type: article
source: "daily.dev"
published: 2020-08-25T12:51:48.648Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["webdev", "css"]
upvotes: 10
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# 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.

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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?

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