Comparison
Comparison
The world is not always or . The following table is simplified. The best choice depends on your specific use case and preferences.
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Static | Compile Time | Browser Runtime | |||||||||||
Vanilla CSS | Next-Yak | Tailwind | SCSS | CSS Modules | StyleX | Panda CSS | Linaria | Vanilla Extract | Styled-Components | Emotion | Goober | Restyle | |
INP optimized1) | |||||||||||||
Zero Runtime2) | |||||||||||||
Zero SSR Overhead3) | |||||||||||||
Vanilla CSS Syntax | |||||||||||||
Using JS Constants in CSS | |||||||||||||
Mixins / JS Fragments | |||||||||||||
Type-safe cross file selectors | |||||||||||||
Type-safe CSS runtime values | |||||||||||||
Type-safe conditional styling | |||||||||||||
CSS Colocation | |||||||||||||
Collision-free class names | |||||||||||||
CSS Code Splitting by page | |||||||||||||
Compact HTML output | |||||||||||||
Zero Compile | |||||||||||||
Compile time optimized4) | |||||||||||||
Next.js | |||||||||||||
React | |||||||||||||
React Server Components | |||||||||||||
Vite | |||||||||||||
Framework agnostic |
1) Input Delay - Injecting styles during streaming or render can cause long delays on low end devices because of style invalidations
2) Zero Runtime - No code for CSSOM insertions or updates
3) Zero SSR Overhead - During SSR no code is generating CSS
4) Compile time optimized - Minimizing compile time (e.g. by using Rust)