Turns out you can use several different libraries to pass color information around components. Or, you could use custom properties, built right into CSS, have no decline in your own developer experience, and deliver a faster experience to your users. Kent proves it here, with demos.
For the record, you could go a step further than Kent has here and not use CSS-in-JS at all, but still be updating CSS custom properties from button clicks in React and managing the state there and such. I’m telling ya, one of the main jobs of a UI component library like React is managing state, and CSS might as well know about that state so you can use it to do any styling you need to do.
Wait, not use CSS-in-JS? Kent:
I’ve never been so productive working with CSS than when I added a real programming language to it.
Extreme side eye, Kent.
We should be calling it CSS-in-React, also, since React is the only major framework that doesn’t have a blessed solution for styling.
