--- title: Zero-Runtime CSS From JS With Linaria | daily.dev description: Linaria is a zero-runtime CSS-in-JS library that extracts CSS to plain files at build time using a Babel preset. Unlike traditional CSS-in-JS libraries... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/zero-runtime-css-from-js-with-linaria-0ftkgvklj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Zero-Runtime CSS From JS With Linaria | daily.dev og:description: Linaria is a zero-runtime CSS-in-JS library that extracts CSS to plain files at build time using a Babel preset. Unlike traditional CSS-in-JS libraries... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/zero-runtime-css-from-js-with-linaria-0ftkgvklj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0FtkGVKlJ.png og:image:alt: Zero-Runtime CSS From JS With Linaria 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. # Zero-Runtime CSS From JS With Linaria **[Callstack Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/callstack-blog)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Linaria is a zero-runtime CSS-in-JS library that extracts CSS to plain files at build time using a Babel preset. Unlike traditional CSS-in-JS libraries (styled-components, Emotion), it has no runtime cost — no CSS parser is bundled with JavaScript, enabling parallel downloading of CSS and JS. It supports tagged template literal syntax, build-time JavaScript expressions, Sass-like nesting, SSR critical CSS extraction, and Webpack hot reload. The key trade-off is that dynamic values like props cannot be used since all CSS must be evaluable at build time. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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