@xso/css

XSO has your own CSS abstraction, is like StyleX, but more simple to use and dynamic, and supports LESS and SASS/SCSS hierarchy structures-like.

XSO CSS works like StyleX but supports LESS and SASS/SCSS logic structures.

This pure JavaScript framework brings a new way to build your CSS, in a much more practical way, less verbose, without limitations, and with no compilations.

All CSS is generated on run-time and injected into <style>s in the HTML.

The style sheet is implemented in fully raw JavaScript Objects.

Easy to use to generate CSS classes within any framework, like React, Vue, Svelte, and more.

Documentation

Here is the official website with the full documentation:

• xsojs.dev

Install

To start playing with XSO CSS:

npm install -S @xso/css

But better, is to use the PNPM:

pnpm install @xso/css

Or if you prefer Yarn:

yarn add -S @xso/css

Or even another package manager.

How To Use

Example of the capabilities supported in the style objects definition:

styles.js

const MEDIA_QUERY = '@media only screen and (max-width: 768px)';

const styles = {
  container: {
    backgroundColor: 'gray',
    ':hover': {
        cursor: 'pointer'
    },
    '> div': {
      padding: {
        default: '100px 150px',
        [MEDIA_QUERY]: '20px 50px'
      },
      '> button': {
        backgroundColor: 'red',
        ':hover': {
            backgroundColor: 'yellow',
        },
        [MEDIA_QUERY]: {
          backgroundColor: 'blue',
          ':hover': {
            backgroundColor: 'green'
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  button: {
    border: '2px solid pink',
    '&_on': {
        boxShadow: [
            '0 0 10px pink',
            '0 0 10px pink'
        ].join(','),
    }
  }
};

export default styles;

Then use it in your React component:

index.jsx

import React, {useState} from 'react';

import css from '@xso/css';
import styles from './styles.js';

function Foo() {
    const [active, setActive] = useState(false);
    return (
        <div className={css(styles.container)}>
            <div>
                <button className={css(
                    styles.button,
                    styles[`button-${active === true && 'on'}`]
                )}
                onClick={()=> setActive(true)}>
                    Foo
                </button>
            </div>
        </div>
    );
}

export default Foo;

Vanilla JS in HTML

Here is an integration directly in the raw HTML with pure JavaScript, like this:

<!--
Here is the bundle JS file to download:
https://github.com/xsojs/css/blob/main/dist/xso-css.umd.js
-->
<script src="xso-css.umd.js"></script>

<div id="myElement">
    XSO Style
    <h2>Demo</h2>
    <div class="inner-container">
        <p>This works like LESS, SASS/SCSS, or StyleX, but directly in JavaScript vanilla.</p>
        <button>Click Me</button>
    </div>
</div>

<script>
const styles = {
    myFirstStyle: {
        padding: '20px',
        fontSize: '16px',
        border: '3px solid blue',
        backgroundColor: 'red',
        '> h2': {
            backgroundColor: 'orange'
        },
        '& div.inner-container': {
            margin: '20px',
            padding: '20px',
            backgroundColor: 'white'
        },
        ' p': {
            padding: '10px',
            border: '2px solid black'
        },
        '> div > button': {
            border: 'none',
            backgroundColor: 'green',
            color: 'white',
            padding: '5px',
            ':hover': {
                backgroundColor: 'blue',
            }
        }
    }
}
document.getElementById('myElement').className = css(
    styles.myFirstStyle
);
</script>

Easy to integrate with others dependencies

You can integrate with any other dependency to add facilities.

A good one is the TinyColor because have the power to manipulate color variants easily.

With all installed and ready to run, see this example:

style.js

import tinycolor from "tinycolor2";

const primaryColor = tinycolor("#32a852");

const styles = {
  container: {
    backgroundColor: primaryColor.lighten(50).toString(),
    color: primaryColor.toString(),
    border: `5px solid ${primaryColor.darken(50).toString()}`
  }
};

export default styles;

Name and BaseName

The CSS class name is auto-generated and has a random unique code.

But you can specify the name you want or even the name's prefix using the base name.

const styles = {
  container: {
    baseName: 'my-com',
    ...
  },
  title: {
    name: 'my-com__title',
    ...
  }
}

Using the base name the random unique code will be added automatically.

Using the name you need to make sure it is unique globally.