Will styled-components ever support latest react features (server components, streaming, concurrent redering) ?

[jonrrivera]

Been a long time fan / user of styled-components. But recently I have found myself using tailwind 😳 because I want to leverage latest React (Server Component) features on Next.js.

I would hugely prefer to continue using styled-components since I love the syntax and already have so many projects using it. But im mainly wondering the interest and possibility for styled-components to adopt these latest react features? is this something this library is looking to get into?

Would love to hear some thoughts. thank you !!

[tim-soft]

Vercel has some vague statement in their docs

https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/styling/css-in-js

We're working with the React team on upstream APIs to handle CSS and JavaScript assets with support for React Server Components and streaming architecture.

I have not seen any updates since they posted this many months ago

Anyone feel free to clue me in if I've missed something

[eualex]

@quantizor ?

[haytherecharlie]

This library is going to die if we don't start supporting Server Components. I also have to use Tailwind and it makes me so sad.

[quantizor]

It would be a different library if we dropped use of context, which is required for server components. No plans to do so. React is welcome to introduce a useful API we can switch to.

[tim-soft]

@leerob @timneutkens @acdlite @gaearon is runtime css-in-js in React dead?

[quantizor]

They've been pretty clear that you can still use whatever you want in client components, it's just they won't be as optimized. But like with all things it's a tradeoff. A runtime means you have to ship the runtime, it can't just be compiled away unless your site is entirely static.