🆚 StyleX vs. Tailwind CSS
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About
StyleX is an open-source styling system and CSS-in-JS library developed by Meta for building and maintaining large-scale web applications.
It compiles styles to static, collision-free atomic CSS rules at build time, supports type-safe style definitions, media queries, pseudo-classes, theming through shared variables, and is designed to eliminate runtime style injection overhead.
Tailwind CSS is an open-source utility-first framework that provides low-level CSS classes for building user interfaces directly in markup.
It includes hundreds of utility classes, supports responsive design and dark mode, enables tree-shaking to remove unused styles for optimized builds, and offers 500+ UI blocks, 10+ templates, and the Catalyst UI kit via paid Tailwind Plus, formerly known as Tailwind UI.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⬆️ 151st most popular in Poland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 153rd most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 206th most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 206th most popular in Italy in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 207th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Maldives in the UI Frameworks category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Saint Helena in the UI Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the UI Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the UI Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the UI Frameworks category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,528,374 websites. However, data for StyleX is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

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