What is Stitches?
It is a fully-typed CSS-in-JS library featuring near-zero runtime, server-side rendering, multi-variant support, and a best-in-class developer experience.
Stitches is a tool in the CSS Pre-processors / Extensions category of a tech stack.
Stitches is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Stitches's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Stitches?
Companies
7 companies reportedly use Stitches in their tech stacks, including Labs, midas-engineering, and Realword Studio Frontend.
Developers
10 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Stitches.
Stitches's Features
- Avoids unnecessary prop interpolations at runtime, making it significantly more performant than other styling libraries
- Both @stitches/core and @stitches/react libraries combined weigh in at ~8.0kb gzipped
- Supports cross-browser server-side rendering, even for responsive styles and variants
- Variants are a first-class citizen, so you can design composable component APIs which are typed automatically
- Define multiple themes with CSS variables, then expose them to any part of your app
- With a fully-typed API, token-aware properties, and custom utils, it provides a fun and intuitive DX
- No more specificity issues due to the atomic output. Even extended components (via the as prop) won't contain duplicate CSS properties
Stitches Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Stitches?
Sass
Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It's translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin.
Animate.css
It is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects. Great for emphasis, home pages, sliders, and general just-add-water-awesomeness.
Less
Less is a CSS pre-processor, meaning that it extends the CSS language, adding features that allow variables, mixins, functions and many other techniques that allow you to make CSS that is more maintainable, themable and extendable.
Autoprefixer
It is a CSS post processor. It combs through compiled CSS files to add or remove vendor prefixes like -webkit and -moz after checking the code.
css-loader
The css-loader interprets @import and url() like import/require() and will resolve them.
