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The best Linaria alternatives

5 tools that do a similar job to Linaria, 5 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Linaria

A CSS-in-JS library that extracts styles to plain CSS files at build time, so no styling code runs in the brow

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    styled-components

    Open source · MIT · ★ 41.1k

    A library for styling React components with CSS written inside your JavaScript.

    Best for: React developers who prefer writing styles alongside components in JavaScript; Teams building apps that use server-side rendering or React Server Components

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    Emotion

    Open source · MIT · ★ 18k

    A JavaScript library for writing CSS styles inside your code, mainly for React apps.

    Best for: React developers who want styles colocated with components; Teams that want to combine and reuse style objects in JavaScript

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    vanilla-extract

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.4k

    Write CSS styles in TypeScript; they compile to static CSS files at build time.

    Best for: Front-end developers who want type-checked styles in TypeScript; Teams using React, or any other front-end framework, or no framework at all

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    React Native for Web

    Open source · MIT · ★ 22.2k

    Runs React Native UI components in the browser, using React DOM.

    Best for: Developers who already use React Native and want the same components on the web; Contributors who want to work on the react-native-web package itself

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    Tamagui

    Open source · MIT · ★ 14.3k

    A TypeScript library for building React and React Native UIs that share styling and code.

    Best for: Teams building the same app for web and native with React; Developers who want shared styling across React Native and react-native-web

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Linaria. We don't take payment for placement.