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CSS-in-JS

After some initial growth, it seems like the CSS-in-JS sector has plateaued, and the fact that native CSS itself is adopting many of its main advantages is probably a big contributing factor.

Experience Over Time

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Retention, interest, usage, and awareness ratio over time.
Styled Components
JSS
Styled JSX
Emotion
CSS Modules
Styled System
Stitches
Theme UI
vanilla-extract
Windi CSS

Technologies with less than 10% awareness not included. Each ratio is defined as follows:

  • Retention: would use again / (would use again + would not use again)
  • Interest: want to learn / (want to learn + not interested)
  • Usage: (would use again + would not use again) / total
  • Awareness: (total - never heard) / total

Experience Over Time

Overview of opinions on the technologies surveyed over time.
Would use again
Would not use
Interested
Not interested
Never heard

Technologies with only one year of data are not included.

Positive/Negative Split

This chart splits positive (“want to learn”, “would use again”) vs negative (“not interested”, “would not use again”) experiences on both sides of a central axis.

Bar thickness represents the number of respondents aware of a technology.

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Styled Components

Comments9
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Respondent's experience with Styled Components.
Would use again
Would not use
Interested
Not interested
Never heard
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Respondent's experience with JSS.
Would use again
Would not use
Interested
Not interested
Never heard

Styled JSX

Comments2
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Respondent's experience with Styled JSX.
Would use again
Would not use
Interested
Not interested
Never heard
Comments4
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Respondent's experience with Emotion.
Would use again
Would not use
Interested
Not interested
Never heard

CSS Modules

Comments8
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Respondent's experience with CSS Modules.
Would use again
Would not use
Interested
Not interested
Never heard

Styled System

Comments2
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Respondent's experience with Styled System.
Would use again
Would not use
Interested
Not interested
Never heard
Comments8
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Respondent's experience with Stitches.
Would use again
Would not use
Interested
Not interested
Never heard
Comments2
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Respondent's experience with Theme UI.
Would use again
Would not use
Interested
Not interested
Never heard

vanilla-extract

Comments4
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Respondent's experience with vanilla-extract.
Would use again
Would not use
Interested
Not interested
Never heard
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Respondent's experience with Windi CSS.
Would use again
Would not use
Interested
Not interested
Never heard