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The best Emotion alternatives

8 tools that do a similar job to Emotion, 8 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Emotion

A JavaScript library for writing CSS styles inside your code, mainly for React apps.

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    styled-components

    Open source · MIT · ★ 41.1k

    A library for styling React components with CSS written inside your JavaScript.

    Best for: React developers who prefer writing styles alongside components in JavaScript; Teams building apps that use server-side rendering or React Server Components

    Full review Emotion vs styled-components
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    vanilla-extract

    Open source · MIT · ★ 10.4k

    Write CSS styles in TypeScript; they compile to static CSS files at build time.

    Best for: Front-end developers who want type-checked styles in TypeScript; Teams using React, or any other front-end framework, or no framework at all

    Full review Emotion vs vanilla-extract
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    Linaria

    Open source · MIT · ★ 12.4k

    A CSS-in-JS library that extracts styles to plain CSS files at build time, so no styling code runs in the brow

    Best for: React or other JavaScript teams who want CSS-in-JS without a runtime styling cost; Projects that already use a supported bundler and can add a build-time plugin

    Full review Emotion vs Linaria
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    react-loadable

    Open source · MIT · ★ 16.5k

    A React helper that loads components on demand using promises, to shrink your initial bundle.

    Best for: React developers whose main JavaScript bundle has grown large; Apps that use Webpack and want component-level code splitting

    Full review Emotion vs react-loadable
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    Zustand

    Open source · MIT · ★ 58.9k

    A small React state-management library built on hooks, with no providers needed.

    Best for: React developers who want simpler shared state than Redux; Apps that need state shared across many components without wrapping them in providers

    Full review
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    TanStack Table

    Open source · MIT · ★ 28.5k

    Headless library for building customizable data tables in TypeScript and JavaScript.

    Best for: Developers building custom data tables in React, Vue, Solid, Svelte or another supported framework; Teams that already have a design system and want a table that matches it

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    React-Toastify

    Open source · MIT · ★ 13.4k

    A React library that shows pop-up notification messages (toasts) in your app.

    Best for: React developers who need simple on-screen notifications; Apps that want to show several stacked messages at once

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    React Native for Web

    Open source · MIT · ★ 22.2k

    Runs React Native UI components in the browser, using React DOM.

    Best for: Developers who already use React Native and want the same components on the web; Contributors who want to work on the react-native-web package itself

    Full review

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Emotion. We don't take payment for placement.