Why Remix supports multiple styling approaches - See It in Action

Why Remix Supports Multiple Styling Approaches

📖 Scenario: You are building a simple Remix app that shows a message styled in different ways. Remix lets you choose how to add styles, so you can see how each method works.

🎯 Goal: Create a Remix component that uses three different styling approaches: inline styles, CSS modules, and global CSS. This will help you understand why Remix supports multiple styling methods.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a React component called StyledMessage in Remix.

Use inline styles to color the first message text blue.

Use a CSS module to style the second message text with a red color.

Use a global CSS file to style the third message text with a green color.

Import and apply all styles correctly in the Remix component.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

In real projects, developers use different styling methods depending on the app size, team preferences, and performance needs. Remix supports all these to make styling easier.

💼 Career

Knowing how to use multiple styling approaches in Remix is valuable for frontend jobs where flexibility and maintainability of styles are important.

1

Create the Remix component with inline styles

Create a React component called StyledMessage that returns a <div> containing a <p> with the text "This is inline styled text". Add inline style to make the text color blue using style={{ color: 'blue' }}.

Remix

export default function StyledMessage() {
  return (
    
      {/* Add a  with inline style color blue here */}
    
  )
}

Hint

Use the style attribute with a JavaScript object to set the color to blue.

2

Add a CSS module for red text styling

Create a CSS module file named StyledMessage.module.css with a class redText that sets color: red;. Then import this CSS module in the StyledMessage component and add a <p> with the text "This is red text from CSS module" using the redText class.

Remix

import styles from './StyledMessage.module.css'

export default function StyledMessage() {
  return (
    
      This is inline styled text
      {/* Add a  with className={styles.redText} here */}
    
  )
}

Hint

Create the CSS module file with .redText { color: red; } and import it in your component.

3

Add global CSS for green text styling

Create a global CSS file named global.css with a class greenText that sets color: green;. Import this global CSS file in your Remix root file (e.g., root.jsx or root.tsx). Then add a <p> in StyledMessage with the text "This is green text from global CSS" and class greenText.

Remix

import styles from './StyledMessage.module.css'

export default function StyledMessage() {
  return (
    
      This is inline styled text
      This is red text from CSS module
      {/* Add a  with className="greenText" here */}
    
  )
}

// Remember to import global.css in your root file

Hint

Import the global CSS file in your root file and use the class name directly in your component.

4

Explain why Remix supports multiple styling approaches

Add a comment at the top of the StyledMessage component explaining that Remix supports multiple styling approaches to give developers flexibility to choose what fits their project best, whether inline styles for quick tweaks, CSS modules for scoped styles, or global CSS for shared styles.

Remix

// Add a comment explaining why Remix supports multiple styling approaches
import styles from './StyledMessage.module.css'

export default function StyledMessage() {
  return (
    
      This is inline styled text
      This is red text from CSS module
      This is green text from global CSS
    
  )
}

// In your root.jsx or root.tsx file, import './global.css'

Hint

Write a clear comment at the top of the file explaining Remix's styling flexibility.