Next-Yak | 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)