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styled-components is a styling library for React. It lets you write actual CSS in tagged template literals attached to each component.[1][2]

Styled-components is a popular CSS-in-JS styling framework that utilizes tagged template literals in JavaScript to style React components. This library allows developers to write actual CSS code to style components, promoting a component-centric styling approach. It automatically generates unique class names, eliminating the need to manually manage class names and selectors. Styled-components offers features like dynamic styling based on props, theming support, and automatic vendor prefixing. This approach results in more maintainable and scalable code by keeping the styles tightly coupled with their components.

styled-components belongs toDevelopmentJavaScript frameworkscategories.

Approach

CSS written in tagged template literals[2]

Targets

React on the web, server components and React Native[1]

Build step

None required[3]

Maintainers

One maintainer remains[4]

83websites

use it — 3.3% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#6of 47

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 179)

18public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

In short: A long-running CSS-in-JS library for React with one remaining maintainer; read its roadmap before starting a new project.[4][5]

3.46% of all websites we track run styled-components▼ 0.01 points since 20 Sep

Should you use styled-components?

The 10-second version, from the vendor’s own pages and what we see in our scans

styled-components fits if…

  • React apps that want styles written beside each component without a build step.[2][3]
  • Projects that need the same styling approach on the web and in React Native.[1]

Look elsewhere if…

  • New projects: the 2025 maintenance-mode post advised against adopting it, so compare current alternatives first.[5]
Only one maintainer remains, and the project is asking for funding to continue.[4][3]
A v7 alpha exists for testing and requires a recent React or React Native.[6]

Support and help for styled-components

How the vendor says you can reach it, and the public help community

Paid sponsor tier

The highest Open Collective tier includes priority support and private engineering hours.[3]

Stack Overflow

4,553 questions[9][10]

64% have an upvoted answer. [styled-components] questions

styled-components versions

The newest release, the series that still gets fixes, and what changed

Latest release

6.6.0[7][8]

Released 12 Oct 2026

Maintained series

6

What styled-components sites add on top

How many of the 83 styled-components sites we scanned also run each tool, grouped by what the tool does

Tag manager

Google Tag Manager
66%55 sites

Analytics

Google Analytics
60%50 sites
Facebook Pixel
33%27 sites
Linkedin Insight Tag
18%15 sites

Cookie consent

OneTrust
39%32 sites

Online store

Cart Functionality
18%15 sites

A/B testing

Optimizely
11%9 sites

The full bar means every styled-components site. A site can run several tools for one job, so the shares of tools in one group can add up to more than 100%.

How styled-components sites protect themselves

Share of the 83 sites we scanned that run each protection

HSTS70% · 58 sites

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) informs browsers that the site should only be accessed using HTTPS

reCAPTCHA28% · 23 sites

reCAPTCHA is a free service from Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse

Cloudflare Bot Management21% · 17 sites

Cloudflare bot management solution identifies and mitigates automated traffic to protect websites from bad bots

Protections add up, they do not replace each other: a site can run all of them.

What sites use styled-components for

An estimate from UptimeCard's technology map of 14 public sites

Runs the whole site10 sites

etleap.com · faithlife.com · freshservice.com

Runs the marketing site3 sites

pagero.com · solarisgroup.com · uipath.com

Hosts help, docs or support content1 sites

kentik.com

Rough guide, not a measurement: each description is written automatically from the site’s technology stack and the site has not confirmed it. A site is counted once, in the first group its description fits (shop, help and docs, blog, marketing site; otherwise the whole site). Descriptions that only guess (“likely”, “may”) are left out.

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,555 websites · refreshed weekly

How styled-components sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

47PerformancePooraverage site: 5091AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8977Best practicesFairaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about 39% faster than the average site

styled-components sites
2.6 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most styled-components sites load in 1.9–4.5 s. Home page weight: 2.6 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 15 public sites measured.

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software28%
Business Services22%
Software as a Service (SaaS)22%
Fintech Solutions11%

Share of 18 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

How styled-components sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on styled-components sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

Contentful6×TikTok Pixel5×Envoy4×Optimizely4×Next.js4×Google Cloud CDN3×Datadog3×Google Cloud3×Node.js3×

Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with styled-components on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 83 styled-components sites that run the whole stack.

10 stacks · swipe, drag or use the arrows
#1

styled-components + Next.js + Amazon CloudFront + AWS Certificate Manager

9.6%8 of 83 sites
#2

styled-components + Next.js + OneTrust + Contentful

8.4%7 of 83 sites
#3

styled-components + Next.js + Sentry + Google Cloud

4.8%4 of 83 sites
#4

styled-components + OneTrust + Amazon CloudFront

6%5 of 83 sites
#5

styled-components + Next.js + Akamai

6%5 of 83 sites
#6

styled-components + OneTrust + Emotion

6%5 of 83 sites
#7

styled-components + OneTrust + AWS Certificate Manager

4.8%4 of 83 sites
#8

styled-components + Amazon CloudFront + Emotion

4.8%4 of 83 sites
#9

styled-components + AWS Certificate Manager + Emotion

4.8%4 of 83 sites
#10

styled-components + Contentful + Gatsby

4.8%4 of 83 sites

Similar tools in its category

Development: 179 tools known, 47 seen in our scans

Vue.js144 sitesAlternativeGSAP138 sitesAlternativeAngularJS64 sitesAlternativeTurbopack52 sitesAlternativeNuxt.js47 sitesAlternativeAdobe Client Data Layer47 sitesAlternativeAlpine.js33 sitesAlternativeNext.js App Router31 sitesAlternativeReact644 sitesUsed togetherNext.js375 sitesUsed togetherEmotion96 sitesUsed togetherGatsby29 sitesUsed together

How websites combine styled-components with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Complements another tool 10Overlaps with another 5Needs another tool 4Integrates with another 1

Who is behind styled-components

From its own pages and public records, with sources

styled-components

since 2016[3]

Its story

  1. 2016

    The first commit in October 2016 brought CSS written in tagged template literals to React. Styles belong to the component, so class names no longer collide.[3]

  2. 2017

    A Babel plugin arrived for server-side rendering and smaller bundles. Add-ons such as a Jest helper and a VS Code extension followed.[3]

  3. 2018

    The v2 to v4 releases added native theming, React Native support and the attrs API, which let teams style one codebase on the web and on mobile.[3]

  4. 2020

    v5 rebuilt the core stylesheet engine and moved its internals from class components to hooks, aimed at faster server and client rendering.[3]

  5. 2023

    v6.0.0 shipped in June 2023 as a rewrite in TypeScript. Built-in types meant users could drop the separate @types/styled-components package.[3]

  6. 2025

    In 2025 the project entered maintenance mode. The maintainer cited React Server Components dropping Context support and the ecosystem moving on from CSS-in-JS.[5]

  7. 2026

    v6.4.0 added createTheme for CSS-variable theming that also works in React Server Components, and dropped IE11. A March 2026 update called it a path forward in modern React.[3][4]

  8. 2026

    A first v7 alpha was announced in May 2026 for testing under the test tag. It is a pre-release and not yet the stable version.[6]

Questions about styled-components

Is styled-components still maintained?
The project entered maintenance mode in 2025, and later posts describe new releases and a v7 alpha. Only one maintainer remains.[5][6][4]
Does it need a build step?
No. The maintainer lists the lack of a build step as one of its strengths.[3]
How many websites use styled-components?
We found styled-components on 83 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (3.3%). 18 of them have a public status page.
What is styled-components often used with?
Among the websites we scan, styled-components is often found alongside Next.js (53% of its sites), Node.js (53% of its sites), OneTrust (38.6% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to styled-components?
Other development tools we recognize include React, Next.js, Vue.js, GSAP.

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