styled-components alternative for react-vis

[chrisirhc]

styled-components alternative for comparison with #1.

Some notes:

• Introduces a peer dependency on styled-components
• Preserves current class names so all applications' styles should continue to work if they were using classes to re-style react-vis charts
• Will require the same setup as BaseWeb: https://baseweb.design/getting-started/setup#adding-base-web-to-your-application

[chrisirhc]

Fyi @mcnuttandrew
Differences can be seen at https://github.com/chrisirhc/react-vis/compare/styledcomponents..styletron

[mcnuttandrew]

Very cool! I like that there's a zero configuration change. Given how many issues on react-vis were basically just people forgetting to import the css file, I really like the idea of just being able to drop in a replacement.

I suspect it will also play nicer with both potential community contributors as well as potential react-vis users, as styled-components is quite a bit more popular than styletron (https://npmcharts.com/compare/styletron-react,styled-components). (not trying to dunk on styletron, just trying to ease adoption as much as possible)

Also there already appears to have been some community interest in this idea (uber#825), but that never really got beyond the RFC!

If this approach will re-engage uber support with the project I think this approach is quite a bit stronger.