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Lars Ejaas

Hi Nitzan

I only have an older repo to share, and honestly I would probably refactor the code a bit today, but feel free to take a look at it at: github.com/LarsEjaas/bruce-willis-app

It's a small page/web app - it's live here at bruce-willis.rocks/en

I am unsure that there is a best practice regarding separating code into separate files or not, but I like to do it this way. We use the same approach in the team where I work.

Let's say I am doing an "awesome button"

Then I would create a folder named AwesomeButton in the components folder.

This would contain:

AwesomeButton.tsx for the functional component,
AwesomeButton.styles.ts for the styles,
AwesomeButton.test.tsx for the tests and maybe
Awesome.stories.tsx if you use storybook.

Furthermore I would make an index.ts file where I would export the functional component like this:

export {default} from AwesomeButton.tsx
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This way I can import my AwesomeButton component like this inside my project:

import AwesomeButton from 'components/AwesomeButton'
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I think this pattern works well for large projects.

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Lars Ejaas

Ahh, missed the part regarding tag-specific variants:

I use both of these:

export const StyledHeadline = styled.h1`
 //...styles
`
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and

import UnstyledComponent from 'components/...'

export const StyledComponent = styled(UnstyledComponent)`
  //...styles
`
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Nitzan Hen

Thanks a lot for your detailed response!!!
This will be of great help to me.

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Lars Ejaas

Ahh, you are welcome! Feel free to drop me a message if something is difficult with Styled Components. It can be a bit difficult at first...