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Styling Components in React Toolbox 2

I wrote react-toolbox and presented it almost a year ago in lighning talk at Reactive Conf 2015 in Bratislava. At first it was just a proof of concept of a component library styled with CSS Modules and SASS. Now the project has grown quite a bit, and during this year there has been tons of changes and lessons learned.

Theming and customization is one of the most difficult and interesting problems to solve. For the first version we needed a custom Webpack loader to generate themes and doing simple style overrides was very painful. Today I'm working on a new playground that will allow you try CSS Modules live, and to create React Toolbox themes on the f

I’m amazed by React and how it’s bringing happiness to our developer lives. I specially like the workflow that integrates Webpack + React + CSS Modules + Babel among other tools and preprocessors. That’s why Javier Jiménez and I are working together in a library called React Toolbox that we would like to show in a lightning talk at Reactive Conference.

The main idea is to create a set of React components implementing Material Design guidelines. There are already some libraries that solve a similar problem but our project is mostly focused on the workflow and best practices to create a tool everybody would want to use. Also, we are sticking to the design guidelines proposed by Google and embracing minimalism by generating the minimum possible amount of HTML and styles to get the best result. Our workflow includes among others:

Webpack.
ES6 with Babel
Unit t

	'use strict';

	import React, {Component} from 'react';
	import {
	Text,
	} from 'react-native';

	export default class AppText extends Component {
	constructor(props) {
	super(props)

	doctype html
	html
	head
	title My App
	meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"
	= stylesheet_link_tag "application", media: 'all', 'data-turbolinks-track' => true
	= javascript_include_tag "application", 'data-turbolinks-track' => true
	= csrf_meta_tags

	body

	git branch -m old_branch new_branch # Rename branch locally
	git push origin :old_branch # Delete the old branch
	git push --set-upstream origin new_branch # Push the new branch, set local branch to track the new remote