Installation

Runtime

All uses of StyleX require the runtime package to be installed.

npm install --save @stylexjs/stylex

Compiler

The recommended way to use StyleX in development and production is with the build-time compiler.

Development

TypeScript Limitation

StyleX requires Typescript 5 or later

For development, you need only to configure the Babel plugin so that styles are processed at compile-time. The plugin will compile styles and insert runtime style injection code into your JavaScript modules.

// babel.config.js
import styleXPlugin from '@stylexjs/babel-plugin';

const config = {
  plugins: [
    [
      styleXPlugin,
      {
        dev: true,
        // Set this to true for snapshot testing
        // default: false
        test: false,
        // Required for CSS variable support
        unstable_moduleResolution: {
          // type: 'commonJS' | 'haste'
          // default: 'commonJS'
          type: 'commonJS',
          // The absolute path to the root directory of your project
          rootDir: __dirname,
        },
      },
    ],
  ],
};

export default config;

Production

Production use of StyleX should extract CSS to an external file. This can be done with any bundler that supports Babel, using the metadata generated by the StyleX plugin. See the API reference for more details on the @stylexjs/babel-plugin API.

To make this easier for commonly used packages and meta-frameworks, StyleX provides (experimental) plugins for Webpack, Rollup, and Next.js.

Rollup

npm install --save-dev @stylexjs/rollup-plugin

rollup.config.js

import stylexPlugin from '@stylexjs/rollup-plugin';

const config = {
  input: './index.js',
  output: {
    file: './.build/bundle.js',
    format: 'es',
  },
  // Ensure that the stylex plugin is used before Babel
  plugins: [stylexPlugin({
    // Required. File path for the generated CSS file.
    fileName: './.build/stylex.css',
    // default: false
    dev: false,
    // prefix for all generated classNames
    classNamePrefix: 'x',
    // Required for CSS variable support
    unstable_moduleResolution: {
      // type: 'commonJS' | 'haste'
      // default: 'commonJS'
      type: 'commonJS',
      // The absolute path to the root directory of your project
      rootDir: __dirname,
    },
  })],
};

export default config;

Webpack

npm install --save-dev @stylexjs/webpack-plugin

webpack.config.js

const StylexPlugin = require('@stylexjs/webpack-plugin');
const path = require('path');

const config = (env, argv) => ({
  entry: {
    main: './src/index.js',
  },
  output: {
    path: path.resolve(__dirname, '.build'),
    filename: '[name].js',
  },
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.js$/,
        exclude: /node_modules/,
        use: 'babel-loader',
      },
    ],
  },
  plugins: [
    // Ensure that the stylex plugin is used before Babel
    new StylexPlugin({
      filename: 'styles.[contenthash].css',
      // get webpack mode and set value for dev
      dev: argv.mode === 'development',
      // Use statically generated CSS files and not runtime injected CSS.
      // Even in development.
      runtimeInjection: false,
      // optional. default: 'x'
      classNamePrefix: 'x',
      // Required for CSS variable support
      unstable_moduleResolution: {
        // type: 'commonJS' | 'haste'
        // default: 'commonJS'
        type: 'commonJS',
        // The absolute path to the root directory of your project
        rootDir: __dirname,
      },
    }),
  ],
  cache: true,
});

module.exports = config;

Next.js

npm install --save-dev @stylexjs/nextjs-plugin

.babelrc.js

module.exports = {
  presets: ['next/babel'],
  plugins: [
    [
      '@stylexjs/babel-plugin',
      {
        dev: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development',
        runtimeInjection: false,
        genConditionalClasses: true,
        treeshakeCompensation: true,
        unstable_moduleResolution: {
          type: 'commonJS',
          rootDir: __dirname,
        },
      },
    ],
  ],
};

next.config.js

const stylexPlugin = require('@stylexjs/nextjs-plugin');

module.exports = stylexPlugin({
  rootDir: __dirname,
})({});

Please refer to the StyleX examples apps for demonstrations on how to use each of these plugins.

Local development only

Do not use in Production

You should not use @stylexjs/dev-runtime in production. It has a significant performance cost and should only be used for local development without a compiler. This runtime lacks features otherwise available when using the compiler.

To start using StyleX without having to configure a compiler and build process, you can install the local development runtime.

npm install --save-dev @stylexjs/dev-runtime

The development runtime must be imported in your app's JavaScript entry-point and configured.

import inject from '@stylexjs/dev-runtime';

inject({
  classNamePrefix: 'x',
  dev: true,
  test: false,
});

Once this is done, you can import and use @stylexjs/stylex without any further setup until you're ready to deploy to production.

Catch mistakes with ESLint

The StyleX compiler does not validate your styles and will compile many invalid styles. You should use the ESLint plugin to catch these mistakes when you author your styles.

npm install --save-dev @stylexjs/eslint-plugin

.eslintrc.js

module.exports = {
  plugins: ["@stylexjs"],
  rules: {
    "@stylexjs/valid-styles": ["error", {...options}],
  },
};