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Michele Riva
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Michele Riva

Michele Riva is a passionate and experienced Software Engineer and Google Developer Expert from Milan, Italy. During the last years, he has contributed to many open-source projects from big companies and foundations, such as Facebook and Apache, in many different programming languages and paradigms, including Haskell, Erlang, Go, and JavaScript. He has also written dozens of public domain articles on different topics (software architecture, functional programming, performance enhancements, etc.) and gave many talks at conferences and meetups. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer in the architecture team at ViacomCBS, where he is building a multi-tenant Node.js application at the heart of their websites and streaming services.
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Exploring and using Styled JSX

In this section, we will explore Styled JSX, a built-in styling mechanism provided by default by Next.js.

If you don't want to learn a new styling language such as SASS or LESS and want to integrate a bit of JavaScript into your CSS rules, you might be interested in Styled JSX. It's a CSS-in-JS library (meaning that we can use JavaScript to write CSS properties) created by Vercel, the company behind Next.js, that allows you to write CSS rules and classes that are scoped to a specific component.

Let me explain this concept with an easy example. Let's say that we have a Button component, and we want to style it using Styled JSX:

export default function Button(props) {
  return (
    <>
      <button className="button">{props.children}</button>
      <style jsx>{`
       &...
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Michele Riva

Michele Riva is a passionate and experienced Software Engineer and Google Developer Expert from Milan, Italy. During the last years, he has contributed to many open-source projects from big companies and foundations, such as Facebook and Apache, in many different programming languages and paradigms, including Haskell, Erlang, Go, and JavaScript. He has also written dozens of public domain articles on different topics (software architecture, functional programming, performance enhancements, etc.) and gave many talks at conferences and meetups. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer in the architecture team at ViacomCBS, where he is building a multi-tenant Node.js application at the heart of their websites and streaming services.
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