JSXUI

The core libraries are split up into distinct components that do a specific job. By default when using the Babel plugin all elements can use the modifiers and variants props.

Theme

Modifiers

Variants

Overrides

const App = () => (
  <Variants dark="@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)">
    <Theme
      colors={{ foreground: '#111', background: '#fff' }}
      variants={{
        dark: {
          colors: { foreground: '#eee', background: '#222' },
        },
      }}
    >
      <Modifiers body={{ size: 16, color: 'foreground' }}>
        <Overrides value={[<Text modifiers="body" />]}>
          <Text>Inherits "body" styles by default.</Text>
        </Overrides>
      </Modifiers>
    </Theme>
  </Variants>
)

Theme

Theme is composed of simple primitive values that are resused throughout a tree of components. While they may be of any value, it is advised to keep these as root values and use Modifiers, Variants, and Overrides to alias or apply sets of tokens that can be turned on/off.

<Theme
  colors={{
    primary: 'papayawhip',
    secondary: 'tomato',
  }}
  fontSizes={{
    small: '16px',
    medium: '20px',
    large: '24px',
  }}
  fontWeights={{
    light: '300',
    medium: '400',
    bold: '700',
  }}
>
  ...
</Theme>

Modifiers

Modifiers allow aliasing a set of props that can be reused.

import { Modifiers, useModifierProps } from '@jsxui/react'

function Button({ title, ...props }) {
  const { spaceX, spaceY } = useModifierProps('button', props)
  return <button style={{ padding: `${spaceY} ${spaceX}` }}>{title}</button>
}

function App() {
  return (
    <Modifiers
      button={{
        primary: {
          background: 'brand',
          foreground: 'white',
        },
        'primary.outline': {
          strokeColor: 'brand',
          strokeWeight: 1,
        },
        'size.small': {
          spaceX: 1,
          spaceY: 2,
        },
        'size.medium': {
          spaceX: 1.5,
          spaceY: 3,
        },
        'size.large': {
          spaceX: 3,
          spaceY: 4,
        },
      }}
    >
      <Overrides value={[<Button modifiers="size.medium" />]}>
        <Button
          title="Hello Button"
          modifiers={['primary.outline', 'size.small']}
        />
      </Overrides>
    </Modifiers>
  )
}

const Prose = ({ children }) => (
  <Modifiers
    value={{
      heading: { color: 'foreground' },
      heading1: { size: 32 },
      heading2: { size: 24 },
      heading3: { size: 18 },
      body: { size: 16, color: 'foreground' },
    }}
  >
    {children}
  </Modifiers>
)
const Heading = ({ level, children }) => (
  <Text modifiers={[`heading`, `heading${level}`]}>{children}</Text>
)
const App = () => (
  <Prose>
    <Heading level={1}>Heading 1</Heading>
    <Heading level={2}>Heading 2</Heading>
    <Heading level={3}>Heading 3</Heading>
    <Text modifiers="body">Body</Text>
  </Prose>
)

Variants

Variants allow aliasing a set of props that can be activated and deactivated.

These are helpful for things like:

• Media Queries
• A/B Testing
• User Roles

Local

Components can define local variants. These are normally things like focus/hover/press states, but can be anything you want. Because they are defined statically, locally defined variants have the benefit of accepting a function that can utilize hooks.

function Button({ title, background }) {
  return (
    <Stack
      as="button"
      axis="x"
      spaceX="minmax(16px, 1fr)"
      spaceY="16px"
      background={background}
      style={{
        padding: 0,
        border: 'none',
        borderRadius: 3,
      }}
    >
      <Text weight={600} color="white">
        {title}
      </Text>
    </Stack>
  )
}

Button.variants = {
  hover: () => {
    const [hover, setHover] = React.useState(false)
    return [
      hover,
      {
        onMouseOver: () => setHover(true),
        onMouseOut: () => setHover(false),
      },
    ]
  },
  focus: () => {
    const [focus, setFocus] = React.useState(false)
    return [
      focus,
      {
        onFocus: () => setFocus(true),
        onBlur: () => setFocus(false),
      },
    ]
  },
}

function App() {
  return (
    <Overrides value={[<Button background="brand" />]}>
      <Button title="Beep" />
      <Button title="Boop" background="tomato" />
    </Overrides>
  )
}

Global

Global variants allow turning props on/off for a tree of components. Any element can utilize the variants prop to define the element's props for each respective variation.

function App() {
  return (
    <Variants hover={true}>
      <div variants={{ hover: { style: { color: 'hotpink' } } }}>
        Hello Variants
      </div>
    </Variants>
  )
}

Media Queries

Variants have the ability to define media queries that will be converted to use window.matchMedia.

function App() {
  return (
    <Variants dark="@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)">
      <div
        style={{ background: 'white', color: 'black' }}
        variants={{
          dark: {
            style: { background: 'black', color: 'white' },
          },
        }}
      >
        Hello Variants
      </div>
    </Variants>
  )
}

Chaining

Variants can be chained using a colon. This is similar to chaining pseudo selectors in CSS. Props will only be applied when all variants in the chain are active. Local and global variants can be chained to offer fine grained control.

<Text
  color="green.500"
  variants={{
    hover: {
      color: 'green.800',
    },
    dark: {
      color: 'green.200',
    },
    'dark:hover': {
      color: 'green.700',
    },
  }}
>
  Hello Text
</Text>

Overrides

Overrides are cascading props that allow overriding a child component's default props. Instance props take precedence and are merged after overrides. It is advised to use overrides rather than default props to allow control of the default props of your components.

In a simple example, if we want to allow control over our Button props from Overrides we can set the defaults in our Overrides component:

import { Overrides } from '@jsxui/react'

const styles = {
  initial: {
    background: 'gray'
  },
  brand: {
    background: 'blue'
  }
}

function Button({ appearance, title, onClick }) {
  return <button style={styles[appearance]} onClick={onClick}>{title}</button>
}

function App() {
  return (
    <Overrides value={<Button appearance="default" />]}>
      <Button title="Hello Button" />
      <Button title="Hello Button" appearance="brand" />
    </Overrides>
  )
}

Now Button will apply appearance="default" to all leaf components.

Overriding variants

Overrides also work great with Variants since they allow defining and activating your own variants for any components within a tree.

function TextField({ value, onChange, borderColor }) {
  return <input value={value} onChange={onChange} style={{ borderColor }} />
}

TextField.variants = {
  invalid: () => {
    const [invalid, setInvalid] = React.useState(false)
    return [invalid, { onInvalid: () => setInvalid(true) }]
  },
}

function App() {
  return (
    <Overrides
      value={[
        <TextField
          borderColor="gray"
          variants={{ invalid: { borderColor: 'danger' } }}
        />,
      ]}
    >
      <label>
        Name
        <TextField />
      </label>
      <label>
        Email
        <TextField />
      </label>
    </Overrides>
  )
}