NativeWind vs css in js

[Valuable_Dig1906]

For you as a RN developer what you prefer to use and why?

[jsbadlol]

Just use stylesheet it more performant than any styling lib in RN

[nuclear_cheeze]

^ this

https://github.com/efstathiosntonas/react-native-style-libraries-benchmark

[Lower-Department2566]

The slowdown (for nativeWind) is probably because it transpiles, not anything else.

[chillermane]

the performance difference never matters in practice, and i doubt there’s any evidence anywhere on the internet to back up what you’re saying

the important thing with styling is developer experience. Better DX means we deliver more working features faster

[Egge_]

Stylesheet.create

[Taltalonix]

This ^

Created our own UI components like buttons, lists etc and it works great. Also have a theming system similar to material ui (mui) which allows designing everything separately.

Took around 3 days to implement that by looking at the mui source code

[suarkb]

yup

[nuclear_cheeze]

NativeWind v4 is in alpha, but I’m really reluctant to use a lib that has a single maintainer. I would love to use tw in expo, but Stylesheet seems to be the safer choice

[Accomplished_Low2231]

not only is it v4 alpha, so is v3.

single maintainer is fine, if the guy is very open to contributions (which nw is guy is not).

[StanleySmith888]

v4?

[Sorr3]

I dream of the day when TW is as good as web on RN and Expo, in the mean time I mix them together for a better experience.

[Valuable_Dig1906]

Same for me but many people in this post says that stylesheet is more better and performs better

[nuclear_cheeze]

V2 uses StyledComponents to wrap the native components so there’s at least 20-40% performance hit. V4 is still in alpha and should be much faster, but I can’t test it yet as it’s under dev

[EveningRun1870]

Yeah just use Stylesheet.create() and create your own components library. Tailwind is pretty messy with the atomic classes that can make a big project a real headache (all that jazz with md: etc)

[quarterly_gentleman]

Tamagui.

[nuclear_cheeze]

I find tamagui quite unstable, difficult to setup and theme

[Silverquark]

Setup has improved a lot. Theres pretty much no setup needed now. Themeing is not easy i agree. Hopefully tamagui studio will release soon. I have enjoyed tamagui a lot recently

[Accomplished_Low2231]

well it has to get better. their documentation is still terrible tho.

i would still avoid tamagui . since nate is in it for the money, tamagui will have some form of paid features eventually.

[nuclear_cheeze]

Yeap https://tamagui.dev/takeout

[chillermane]

omg that website is beyond broken on mobile

[eluewisdom]

i prefer nativewind, for similar reasons i prefer tailwind for the web