The Truth About Facebook's "Tailwind Killer" 

Happy holiday season everyone!!! Hope you have a great time with your families

I ditched material ui for tailwind, I will probably never use stylex. I am tired of creating whole object structures for styles and tailwind has a class merge library I can use.

I will never go back to "thinking hard" about naming classes

This is why I value you over certain more popular influencers... you show, not tell. If you've got an opinion, prove it with the code. Others rarely do this.

I really don’t know why some youtubers (surprisingly Theo as well) are so excited to adopt new libraries and “kill” stable ones. StyleX is pretty much the same with RN’s Stylesheet module and CSS IN JS modules of other js libraries. Anyways, thanks for your input and nice explanation, happy holidays mate! Edit: apparently stylex has a few useful stuff under its sleeve like dropping unused classes at build time or spreading style.create with predefined classes. In other words, it would be unfair to say that it brings nothing new to the table. But still jumping back and forth between the html element and styling (in same or different file) is the last thing I want to do after Tailwind’s magic.

I think Tailwindcss is still the 👑. In my opinion StyleX is just similar to styled component🤔

StyleX reminds me of the ReactCss package. I don’t see stylex being needed for most use cases other than in large projects/orgs where a custom design system is needed. Probably won’t ever use it other than to test it out, but it seems pretty cool though pretty cool though

Very informative, ty Josh!

I find it so hard to believe that so many RU-vidrs covering StyleX are treating it like revolutionary new technology and reviewing it like something new and completely ignoring that the technology actually came from react native, also by Facebook.

These videos are just too much awesome 🎉and I try not to post too many comments but I just am unable not to be amazed by the quality of this young RU-vidr because of his communication skills… I hope you guys all will agree with me that Josh is underrated and that he will soon become one of the most influential people on RU-vid I have a lot of respect for many RU-vidrs but Josh your energy is very appreciated and your way of being straightforward and direct is what I love the most but not only 😅😅😅❤

I work with JS, CSS, HTML and other languages for over 15 years now and I think since react less and less devs actually understand CSS

Hi Josh, i want to ask something, when we use ISR in nextjs and set the revalidate like 60 seconds, if I create data in database, then I go to for example user page by id, even though the revalidate not touching the 60 seconds can i read the new user from the database? or it should like wait for 60 sec to get the data from db to the build page? need some explanation please

Maybe it just being regular CSS means you can throw in something like Open Props by Adam Argyle to provide good looking defaults. It has text, gradients, shadows e.t.c. implemented as CSS props.

There is a css selector called data-* , the * means you can call it as you want in html and pass everything to it. You can then use css to select this case and apply specific style without having to create a class. I feel css in js libraries try to solve an issue that does not exist

I care more about what colors, fonts, spacing, margins, and borders I use than how I apply them. Most approaches are fine for me and i will give stylex a try, but I prefer Tailwind atm because of its headless approach and similarity to plain CSS.

When i adopted the tailwind css it significantly reduced the time i spent on designing, it's the major reson for me to use the tailwind, now i can deliver projects faster

Hey bro, have you heard the clsx or twMerge ?

okay so in practices they have css classes but defined in js with all the benifits with that but that gets compiled into css so no slowdown - great!

For tailwind there's tailwind merge and tailwind cva for that sort of thing, stylex seems a lot like vanilla-extract / pandacss with vanilla-extract one downside is that the styles need to be in they're own seperate code file, with pandacss creating libraries using it can be a bit compliated due to the way it generates the css.

This is Absolutely not for small-mid/solo projects at all. More typing demands can tire your fingers and brain. The advantage of TailwindCSS is that it is straightforward, requiring less typing, so it's less tiring on the brain.

I don't get it , we already have cn, tailwind-merge & cva for that? Not sure about the use case for Style X.

Something I don't understand is what's special about this library when react already has style that has like the same syntax?

How do you render your code animations? They are pretty good!

The "alternative_highlited" example could also be done with Tailwind with class-variance-authority(cva). It's actually what some ui libraries like ShadCN use for their variants!

StyleX also mitigates the name mapping between classname and final css rules.

I think we can build amazingly by using both tailwind and stylex in one project.

Doesn't this look exactly like Material UI 4 + clsx?

Hey I don't agree with you about the highlighted text color example at 3:36. Why would someone try to apply two different colprs on the same html element? It doesn't make any sense, that's why in my humble opinion TailwindCss displays a lint error.

Tailwind is not going anywhere, will still use it every time, its pure joy and power, my UI's are great since i started using tailwind.

Some day everyone will back to use normal css file

5:00 in your example you made it seem like the default is white, while it's variant is blue or red. of course the default is text color, while variants are background colors. so in your example the default is actually background color "none" and not white. what an odd example. not sure if this is what you were going for.

How would conditional styling work with this new stylex ?

I use tailwind variants and pretty much doing the same

Imho to just wright CSS is the best solution for 90 % of my projects. To make it more complicated just makes it more complicated. Tailwind reminds me of times where we used font tags and later inline styles ...

Stylex looks like a big ass javascript css object. Why should I use it? Why can’t I just use plain object?

How is Style X different from Mantine's V6 way of styling ?

Stylex is same as Stylesheet in RN and it has to do nothing with tailwind css

This isnt even the first time this was done. Very similar library called treat does this very similarly

Is that how Emotion CSS works?

Sooo... React Native Stylesheet?

I don't get it. It looks like a styled-components, I personally love that styling but learned Tailwind and it's much more easier without overcomplicating things IMHO it's the best solution for writing clean components / web components. What's the point of rewind?

The overriding ability will let more unused Css to be there in the app. This is why I loved Tailwind as it highlights duplicacy and reduces the amount of unused Css.

Supperrrr

0:55 Cool, so we basically bring HTML into jsx?! 👎👎

i think tailwind is much readable

looks similar to react native styles on the first look.

Will we see StyleX in your next X-clone projects?!

Big shoutout for your awesome skills! 🚀 Your work is seriously top-notch, and I'm loving every bit of it. 🌟 could you make us a video on a project with next js + express js in ts?

Hell no 😂, wayyyyyyy to complicated tailwind css will always be the win for me

No way near to kill tailwind. I am not gonna make whole big object of styles and put it in elements. It will make the component uglier and i don't want ugly code. Tailwind is super cool ND with shadcn-ui it has become a giant and go to css framework for developers.

React native styling but in web .. Insteresting

seems like react native styling brought to the web

this method looks like react native stylesheet

talks about PandaCSS!

this is similar to how react native styles work

styleX is completely different to styled-components because former is not loaded at runtime as the latter does

cool

Kyle's clickbaity thumbnail made a perfect opportunity for a revenge, didn't it ;)

Tailwind works fine so no reason for me to go for styleX

Finally the world is going on X direction 😂😂

You didnt mention the primary benefit onlf styleX, its compile time based, meaning it will output only the styles needed, unlike styled components like emotion, i also dont understand how you think spreading props into jsx is more readable then named compoennts, you literally end up repeating a lot of logic just to apply styles, i also cant stand writing css in object notation, it wont convert me from emotion just yet 😂

better to use CSS3, tailwindcss is used so that we don't have to define classes from scratch, no meaning of using it to make code more complex.

I dont get how its any better than using traditional classes and raw css lmfao. Im so confused.

it's like RN ? i think

Let's be honest. Litterly no one who works at a big company that provide some sort of SaaS is going to migrate from styled components or some other solution to StyleX. Heck even stuff like Tailwind is really not used a lot in such corp projects. Some side project sure.

styleX is just styled component

3:33 what is the point of adding 2 text colours (text-blue-400 and text-red-400) to one HTML element?

I will probably never use stylex. I am tired of creating whole object structures for styles and tailwind has a class merge library I can use.

Can you make a RU-vid clone?

I like tailwind way more :D

TailwindCSS on Top for ever

Why I am only seeing RU-vidrs excited by style x? Are they just excited to teach a new course? Who is actually interested interested in going back to styles in js?

twMerge leaves the chat

Having to remember class names is what I dislike about Tailwind/Bootstrap/etc. Building customizable UI libraries is impossible with Tailwind if you don’t use ShadCN logic.

Threads 2.0

I think Stylex will not replace Tailwind because Tailwind is easier to use than Stylex 💯.

Pure css over whatever is not really better or different. Tailwind is different. Like it or not. StyleX is just complexity for the sake of it.

I style prefer Sass :/ I hate Tailwind... but at least it looks less bad than Tailwind so that's a +

Tailwind was a game changer, styleX is just another css in js. Nothing new.

i were not able to do a flag of my country kkkkk dammit

stylex is not a good alternative it is just like bringing threads app to replace twitter,

I honestly think that people in general should stop using Facebook's shit like react or this piece of garbage.

Imo styled-components is more readable. Btw. 1:15 this code doesn't make any sense and is bugged. You cannot pass boolean as prop to styled component. I see stylex as worse younger brother of styled-components

dude, for real how is it different from me defining a const styles = { // CSS styles here //} and just spreading the styles.key in the style prop of the element, we don't need more front-end libraries in my opinion tbh

Idk man, stylex is useless when exists something like shadcn

Tailwind css is the best

Man its boring stuff that you apply styles like react native stylesheet. I will not gonna use stylex I love tailwind

there wont be a tailwind killer for a while

tailwind out

I dont like it, why re-invent the wheel

second! I love your vids btw

Tailwind is a piece of shit. I reject applicants if they use tailwind or anything else than raw css or sass.

as tailwind user this is meh xD

Tailwind killer ? not even close mate it is a lot complicated. you are talking about React css framework not css framework

where this overriding-inline-classes thing came from? It never was like this in HTML, stop creating fake naratives

D.O.A (Dead On Arrival)

Definitely not a tailwind killer imo

Kids, remember StyledComponents

I watched just to support the channel, don’t like StyleX and won’t be using it. Tailwind and Nativewind all the way here

Tailwindcss> stylex