Emotion
👩🎤 CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition, offering powerful and flexible style manipulation capabilities.
Emotion is built in JavaScript, distributed under the MIT License, 18.0k GitHub stars from 100 contributors, latest release @emotion/jest@11.14.2.
When to use Emotion
Emotion is listed here as a Styling project. The directory calls out High performance, Rich ecosystem of plugins, Flexible styling API as capabilities associated with it.
Other recorded traits for Emotion include Lightweight and powerful, Server-side rendering capabilities.
Besides Styling, this page also files Emotion under JavaScript, Development.
Emotion compared with
Records in this directory name styled-components, jss, styled-system as products people compare with Emotion. That list is editorial metadata, not a claim that Emotion replaces each of them.
Open-source projects that mention Emotion are collected on a separate alternatives page.
What the Emotion stats reflect
GitHub currently shows 18.0k GitHub stars, about 100 contributors, 1.1k forks, 372 open issues, latest tracked release @emotion/jest@11.14.2. Star and activity counts here are a snapshot used as a proxy for community adoption, not a quality score.
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- Language
- JavaScript
- Latest Release
- @emotion/jest@11.14.2
- License
- MIT License
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Key features of Emotion
- High performance
- Rich ecosystem of plugins
- Flexible styling API
- Lightweight and powerful
- Server-side rendering capabilities
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Frequently asked questions
What is Emotion?
👩🎤 CSS-in-JS library designed for high performance style composition, offering powerful and flexible style manipulation capabilities. This directory highlights High performance, Rich ecosystem of plugins, Flexible styling API.
Is Emotion free to use?
Emotion is published as open source under the MIT License. The directory lists High performance, Rich ecosystem of plugins, Flexible styling API among its recorded capabilities.
What language is Emotion written in, and what is the latest release?
Emotion is written primarily in JavaScript. The latest release tracked on this page is @emotion/jest@11.14.2.
How widely is Emotion used on GitHub?
Emotion has about 18.0k GitHub stars across about 100 contributors. It also has about 1.1k forks. Those counts are a snapshot of community attention, not a ranking of quality.
What do people compare Emotion with?
This directory records styled-components, jss, styled-system as comparison points for Emotion. A longer list of open-source projects that mention Emotion is at https://www.open-source-tools.com/alternatives/emotion.
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