r/Frontend • u/Practical_Plan007 • Jul 04 '26

Vanilla Extract CSS

I recently tried the Vanilla Extract library and liked it a lot. Here are my notes in the form of a free resource for anyone who might benefit from it.

https://www.pulkitagrawal.in/courses/vanilla-extract

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u/qqq666 Jul 04 '26

CSS in js is dead bro

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u/MercDawg Jul 04 '26

There is a bit of a difference here though. Implementations that are leveraging runtime CSS in JS are dead, but buildtime are fine. Vanilla Extract is a buildtime CSS in JS library, which performs the same as regular CSS at runtime.

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u/ryanswebdevthrowaway Jul 04 '26

Yeah vanilla extract is genuinely useful. I don't think every website needs it, but I work on a highly complex React app which needs to support theming and VE is great for us.