Is stitches still under maintenance??

I want to use stitches and want to make sure that stitches are still under maintenance & process…

[colmtuite]

The React team recommend people use static CSS solutions rather than runtime CSS-in-JS solutions. Here is a GH discussion. More info in this Twitter thread.

Stitches is a runtime lib, so it’s not currently a lib that the React team would recommend. Furthermore, Stitches is not compatible with React 18’s streaming feature. If you don’t plan to use streaming, then we consider Stitches v1 stable, and it should work fine for your project. If on the other hand, you want to “future-proof” your project, and remain aligned with the general direction of the industry, you might want to consider a static solution instead.

We have explored a static version of Stitches, which uses the same API, but we have not yet committed to completing and shipping it.

[lesha1201]

@colmtuite I think CSS-in-JS is a good choice for UI libraries because it makes it very easy to tree-shake unnecessary styles and customize it. In case of static extraction, the end users would need to include either one big CSS file which includes all the styles or include separate files of each component they use which is not the best DX. It possible to write plugins for build tools but it’s hard because of big amount of tools and it also requires some addional setup.

I wouldn’t consider Stitches v1 stable because of some issues which makes it hard to use in a lot of cases:

• https://github.com/modulz/stitches/issues/913
• https://github.com/modulz/stitches/issues/979
• https://github.com/modulz/stitches/issues/1009

I undertand that you have a different vision about it but Stitches became popular very quickly and it already has quite a lot users. So if you don’t plan to maintain it then you can at least find maintainers from a community which I think will be easy.