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πŸ“¨ #165: StyleX, CSS Hooks, PandaCSS, Tailwind, Redux, Astro, Next.js, Remix, Storybook, React-Native 0.73, State of React-Native, Skia text layouts, Expo EAS...

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SΓ©bastien Lorber
SΓ©bastien Lorber
Newsletter Editor - Docusaurus maintainer

Hi everyone!

I've found this week's CSS news particularly interesting! StyleX, CSS Hooks, Panda, Tailwind, CSS4...

The State of React Native survey is open. A new "bridgeless mode" will be introduced in version 0.73 (which has just been released 5 minutes before hitting publish lol!)

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    CSS Hooks

    CSS library with React bindings, offering a real return to basics via inline styles. In From CSS madness to CSS Hooks, the author explains how he uses a variable CSS trick to support missing features such as media-queries, pseudo-selectors and so on.

    Personally, I've always preferred the DX of inline styles, but in practice this is too limited and doesn't always perform well. It remains to be seen whether this innovation will hold up in practice. Mark Dalgleish (🐦 tweet) is excited about it. Note Adam Wathan probably wouldn't have created Tailwind if inline styles had better support (🐦 tweet).

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