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Build your own styled-components library

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Chidume Nnamdi
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3,423
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Styled-components revolutionize the way developers create inline-styled React components by using tagged template literals to eliminate the need for mapping between components and styles, thus allowing styles to be attached directly to regular React components. The tutorial explains the workings of styled-components and tagged template literals, guiding users on building their own styled-components library from scratch. It covers the creation of a styled object with HTML tags as properties, the use of a genComponentStyle function to generate styled React components, and the addition of theming capabilities via a ThemeProvider component. This approach provides developers with the confidence to both utilize and create styled-components, leveraging the flexibility of tagged template literals to dynamically style components based on props and context themes.