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@nfront/global-styles

A package for creating independent global CSS styles, and automatically placing them at the top of the <head> element.

This package was originally created to be used together with gatsby-plugin-global-styles.

Install

npm install --save @nfront/global-styles

or:

yarn add @nfront/global-styles

Why to use

global-styles automatically combines your own global style sheets into one collective global style tag, and makes sure the global style tag ends up where you want it to be in the <head> element.

By default, the global style tag is placed at the top of <head>.

This package is particularly useful when utilizing several CSS styling systems.

For example, you might be using both styled-components and Material-UI. If you want to add your own global styling to this mix, it is important that the order of the style tags in the website's or app's <head> element is correct (properties in lower style tags overwrite the same properties in style tags above it).

As mentioned, this package allows you to create several independent style sheets and will automatically compose those together and add them as part of one style tag at the top of <head>. Global style sheets could for instance include your own personal global style sheet and a style sheet such as normalize.

Lastly, it is also possible to pass in props, like a theme, to your global style sheet. See below for instructions.

How to use

In src/utils/GlobalStyleComponent:

import { createGlobalStyle } from '@nfront/global-styles';
import reset from '../styles/reset';
import globalStyle from '../styles/globalStyle';

const GlobalStyleComponent = createGlobalStyle`
  ${reset}
  ${globalStyle}
`;

export default GlobalStyleComponent;

Here, reset and globalStyle are two JavaScript files that each contain their own global styles that we want to compile into one global style element.

As an example, in src/styles/globalStyle:

import { css } from '@nfront/global-styles';

const globalStyles = css`
  .my-class2 {
    margin-bottom: 10rem;
  }

  html {
    background-color: blue;
  }
`;

export default globalStyles;

Finally, at the root level of your app / during your app's boot sequence:

import GlobalStyleComponent from './src/styles/GlobalStyleComponent';

// Compiles the style element and injects it in head
GlobalStyleComponent.globalStyle.renderStyles();

Or, if using React, at the root level of your React code:

import GlobalStyleComponent from './src/styles/GlobalStyleComponent';

// Compiles the style element and injects it in head
<GlobalStyleComponent />

How to use props (like theme) in a global style file

To use props, like a theme, in a global style sheet, pass in the props.

A theme can be any module exporting a normal object. Its propertis are then accessible inside any global style sheet.

Here is a full example:

In ./src/styles/theme:

const theme = {
  fontFamily: [`"Roboto", "Helvetica", "Arial", "sans-serif"`].join(','),
  primaryColor: blue;
}

export default theme;

Or a MUI theme in './src/styles/theme':

import { createMuiTheme } from '@material-ui/core/styles';
import blue from '@material-ui/core/colors/blue';
import orange from '@material-ui/core/colors/orange';
import red from '@material-ui/core/colors/red';

const muiTheme = createMuiTheme({
  breakpoints: {
    xs: 0,
    sm: 600,
    md: 960,
    lg: 1280,
    xl: 1920,
  },
  palette: {
    primary: blue,
    secondary: orange,
    error: red,
    type: 'light',
    text: {
      primary: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)',
    },
  },
  typography: {
    useNextVariants: true,
    fontFamily: [`"Roboto", "Helvetica", "Arial", "sans-serif"`].join(','),
    h1: {
      fontSize: '2.25rem',
      fontFamily: [`"Roboto-Slab", "Roboto", "Helvetica", "Arial", sans-serif"`].join(','),
      color: 'rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)',
      lineHeight: 1.1,
      letterSpacing: 'normal',
    },
  },
});

export default muiTheme;

In src/styles/globalStyle:

import { css } from 'global-styles';

const globalStyles = css`
  body {
    color: ${props => (props.light ? 'white' : 'black')};
    font-family: ${props => props.theme.typography.fontFamily};
  }
`;

export default globalStyles;

At the root level of your app / during your app's boot sequence:

import GlobalStyleComponent from './src/styles/GlobalStyleComponent';
import theme from './src/styles/theme';

const GlobalStyle = GlobalStyleComponent.globalStyle;
const props = {
  light: true,
  theme: theme,
};

// Compiles the style element and injects it in head
GlobalStyle.renderStyles(props);

Or, if using React, at the root level of your React code:

import GlobalStyleComponent from './src/styles/GlobalStyleComponent';
import theme from './src/styles/theme';

<GlobalStyleComponent theme={theme} light />