How does goober compare to linaria?

[cfuendev]

How does goober compare to linaria?

[B-Teague]

Linaria’s main key feature is zero runtime cost by replacing dynamic values with css variables and generating css files during the build process. You can achieve similar results with goober using extractCss for server side rendering and caching the results.

[cristianbote]

@B-Teague is spot on! Thank you for answering it.

@cfuendev there are two kinds of libraries:

• they work at build time (when you compile your code) and add a tiny little layer of 400B in this case
• they are doing everything at runtime, like goober does it

[cfuendev]

Thanks @B-Teague & @cristianbote, that clears everything out a lot!

Now that I understand both libraries better, I think that shipping my library (Which only supports transpiling a specific syntax to in-lineable css and will require a separate library as a back-end to achieve full CSS-in-JS capabilities) with integrations for both linaria and goober would be a nice approach.

But for now, working with goober is enough. Thanks for the insight!