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30+ CSS libraries and frameworks help you style your applications efficiently.

Styled-components
Styled-components is a popular library for styling React applications using tagged template literals. It allows developers to write CSS directly within JavaScript, enabling a more component-focused approach to styling.

Emotion
Emotion is a performant and flexible library for writing CSS styles with JavaScript. It offers both a CSS-in-JS library and a framework-agnostic CSS library, enabling styled-components, and CSS prop usage in various frameworks.

Stitches
Stitches is a modern CSS-in-JS library focusing on performance, flexibility, and composability. It provides a low-level styling solution with a simple API, enabling powerful theming capabilities and dynamic styling.

JSS
JSS is an authoring tool for CSS that uses JavaScript as a host language. It allows for dynamic styles and is framework-agnostic, making it suitable for various applications.

Linaria
Linaria is a zero-runtime CSS-in-JS library. It allows developers to write CSS in JavaScript without a runtime overhead, compiling styles to plain CSS at build time.

Radium-starter
Radium-starter is a library for managing inline styles on React elements, providing powerful styling capabilities including media queries and interaction states without the need for CSS.

Bootstrap
Bootstrap is a widely used CSS framework for developing responsive and mobile-first websites. It includes a large number of pre-styled components and utilities for building layouts and UI elements.

Bulma
Bulma is a modern CSS framework based on Flexbox. It is designed for simplicity and ease of use, offering a range of responsive components and a modular architecture.

Tailwind CSS
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs. It provides low-level utility classes that enable developers to build complex user interfaces without writing custom CSS.

Foundation
Foundation is a responsive front-end framework that offers a range of customizable UI components and utilities. It is designed to help developers create responsive and accessible web applications quickly.

Material-UI
Material-UI (MUI) is a popular React component library that implements Google’s Material Design. It offers a comprehensive set of components and styles for building responsive and visually appealing user interfaces.

Ant Design
Ant Design is a comprehensive design system and React UI library for enterprise applications. It provides a wide range of high-quality components and an extensive design language.

Semantic UI React
Semantic UI React is the official React integration for Semantic UI. It provides a collection of pre-styled components designed to create a consistent and responsive user interface.

Chakra UI
Chakra UI is a modular and accessible component library for React. It offers a range of customizable and composable components, designed to make it easy to build accessible web applications.

Classnames
Classnames is a utility for conditionally joining class names together. It is a simple JavaScript library that helps manage dynamic class name strings based on various conditions.

CSSTransitionGroup
CSSTransitionGroup is a component for implementing basic CSS animations and transitions in React. It provides a way to apply CSS transitions to elements as they enter or leave the DOM.

Sass
Sass is a CSS preprocessor that extends CSS with features like variables, nested rules, and mixins. It helps keep stylesheets well-organized and allows for more efficient and manageable CSS code.

Less
Less is a CSS preprocessor that extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, and functions. It compiles to standard CSS and enhances the maintainability and flexibility of stylesheets.

Styled System
Styled System is a collection of utilities for building responsive, theme-based design systems with styled-components. It provides a set of functions for handling responsive styles, spacing, color, and typography.

Panda
Panda is a modern CSS-in-JS library focused on performance and developer experience. It offers a utility-first approach to styling, enabling highly customizable and maintainable styles.

Theme UI
Theme UI is a library for building consistent, themeable React applications. It allows developers to define design tokens and apply them throughout their application, ensuring a cohesive design system.

Blueprint
Blueprint is a React-based UI toolkit for the web, designed primarily for building complex, data-dense interfaces for desktop applications. It offers a range of components and styles for creating professional-looking UIs.

Fluent UI
Fluent UI is a collection of UX frameworks from Microsoft for creating consistent, cross-platform designs. It provides a suite of React components that follow the Fluent Design System.

Grommet
Grommet is a React-based framework that provides accessibility, modularity, responsiveness, and themes in a tidy package. It is designed to help developers create scalable and attractive web applications.

Rebass
Rebass is a primitive UI component library built with a styled system for React. It allows for rapid design and prototyping, focusing on creating consistent, responsive UIs.

Evergreen
Evergreen is a React UI framework for building ambitious products on the web. It includes a range of polished, flexible components and follows best practices in accessibility and design.

Reactstrap
Reactstrap is a library of React components that use Bootstrap. It allows developers to use Bootstrap’s styles and components directly in React applications.

CSS Modules
CSS Modules is a CSS file in which all class and animation names are scoped locally by default. It allows for modular and reusable CSS, helping avoid global scope conflicts.

Aphrodite
Aphrodite is a CSS-in-JS library that provides deterministic, scoped styles. It focuses on performance and supports server-side rendering.

Styled JSX
Styled JSX is a full, scoped, and component-friendly CSS support library for JSX (and therefore React). It allows for scoped styles in Next.js applications and beyond.

Vanilla Extract
Vanilla Extract is a zero-runtime Stylesheets-in-TypeScript library. It enables type-safe CSS with static extraction for optimal build performance.

PostCSS
PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS with JavaScript plugins. These plugins can lint your CSS, support variables and mixins, transpile future CSS syntax, inline images, and more.

Twind
Twindis a Tailwind CSS-in-JS solution that offers the benefits of Tailwind without requiring PostCSS, configuration, purging, or auto prefixing. It is framework-agnostic, meaning it can be used with any HTML and JavaScript application, including server-rendered apps.

Twin.macro
Twin.macro is a powerful library that combines the utility-first CSS framework Tailwind CSS with the flexibility of CSS-in-JS libraries like Emotion and Styled-Components. It allows you to use Tailwind’s utility classes directly within your JavaScript files, enabling a seamless integration of design and logic.

Sky-UI
Sky-UI is a graphical user interface that provides a seamless and intuitive user experience. It features a modern, clean, and minimalistic design inspired by the open and expansive nature of the sky. The primary colors are light blues, whites, and soft greys to evoke a sense of calm and tranquility.

Mantine
Mantine is a powerful and versatile choice for React developers, offering a rich set of customizable components, modern design features, and excellent support for accessibility and theming. It’s a fantastic option for building modern, responsive, accessible web applications.

Restyle
Restyle is a minimalistic CSS-in-JS library for React that focuses on simplicity and performance. It requires no build configuration, supports atomic class names for optimized CSS generation, and is compatible with client and server rendering. It allows you to apply styles using the styled function or the CSS prop, making it flexible for various use cases. Restyle also supports features like media queries, pseudoclasses, and encapsulated styling, making it suitable for modern React development.

StyleX
StyleX is a CSS-in-JS library for React developed by Facebook. It emphasizes atomic styles for optimized performance and smaller CSS bundles, allowing fast, responsive UIs. StyleX combines the benefits of CSS modules and inline styles, supporting features like theming, pseudo-classes, and media queries. It’s designed to work seamlessly with React’s component model, offering a powerful yet simple approach to styling modern React applications.

PigmentCSS
PigmentCSS is a modern, zero-runtime CSS-in-JS library developed by MUI, the team behind Material UI. Unlike traditional CSS-in-JS libraries like Emotion or styled-components, which often inject styles at runtime, PigmentCSS pre-processes and compiles all styles into static CSS files during the build process. This approach eliminates runtime overhead, leading to faster initial page loads and improved performance, especially for larger applications.

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