Styled Components

Definitions

1. A CSS-in-JS library for React that lets you define component-scoped styles using tagged template literals in JavaScript. Each styled component generates a unique class name at runtime, preventing style collisions and enabling dynamic styling based on props.

   In plain English: A tool that lets React developers write CSS directly inside their JavaScript code, with each component automatically getting its own isolated styles.

   Example: "The Button's background color changes with a prop — styled-components interpolates the theme color right in the template literal."

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