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styled-components-last-resort
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styled-components-last-resort
One does not simply remove styled-components from a codebase.
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What it is
One does not simply remove styled-components from a codebase.
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Observed mentions: 2025-09-11 17:07:03 UTC to 2025-09-19 23:34:56 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Sep 11 | 2025-09-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-12 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Sep 12 | 2025-09-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 13 | 2025-09-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 14 | 2025-09-14 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 15 | 2025-09-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 16 | 2025-09-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 17 | 2025-09-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 18 | 2025-09-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 19 | 2025-09-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-09-20 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesShow HN: Forked styled-components with optimizations (40% faster for Linear)
Hey HN! We forked styled-components after it entered maintenance mode because
our production apps (and many others) can't migrate overnight.
Backstory: We submitted PR #4332 (https://github.com/styled-components/styled-components/pull/...) to styled-components in July 2024 with React 18
optimizations. When maintenance mode was announced, we turned that PR into this fork.
What we fixed:
- Added React 18's useInsertionEffect
- Rewrote streaming SSR for React 19
- Replaced ES5 output with modern JS
- Optimized array operations with native flatMap
- Fixed Next.js App Router to work without 50+ lines of boilerplate
Linear tested it and saw 40% faster initial renders with zero code changes.
How to try it:
npm install @sanity/styled-components@npm:styled-components
Or for React 19:
npm install @sanity/css-in-js@npm:styled-components
Bench
Read the rest
mark tool to test yourself: https://css-in-js-benchmarks.sanity.dev/
We named it "last-resort" because that's what it is. We're not trying to maintain
styled-components long-term - we're actually migrating to vanilla-extract ourselves.
This is just a performance bridge while teams migrate properly.
The React team recommends moving away from runtime CSS injection. We agree. But
migrations take time, and production apps need to ship today.