Emotion vs. React vs. TypeScript vs. Webix Comparison Chart

Emotion is a performant, flexible CSS-in-JS library designed for writing CSS styles using JavaScript, supporting both string-based and object-based styles while delivering a strong developer experience, complete with source maps, labels, and testing utilities. It offers two powerful usage patterns; a framework-agnostic approach which requires no special configuration yet supports vendor-prefixing, nested selectors, media queries, and class composition through the CSS and CX functions; and a React-optimized variant providing advanced features like the CSS prop for direct styling (similar to the style prop but with support for nested selectors, media queries, and theming capabilities), zero-configuration server-side rendering, native theming, and compatibility with ESLint tooling. Emotion also supports styled-component-like APIs, enabling tag-based or component-based styled elements with dynamic prop-driven styling.

TypeScript adds additional syntax to JavaScript to support a tighter integration with your editor. Catch errors early in your editor. TypeScript code converts to JavaScript, which runs anywhere JavaScript runs: In a browser, on Node.js or Deno and in your apps. TypeScript understands JavaScript and uses type inference to give you great tooling without additional code. TypeScript was used by 78% of the 2020 State of JS respondents, with 93% saying they would use it again. The most common kinds of errors that programmers write can be described as type errors: a certain kind of value was used where a different kind of value was expected. This could be due to simple typos, a failure to understand the API surface of a library, incorrect assumptions about runtime behavior, or other errors.