Darling, I converted our perfectly fine SPA application into SSR: Part 2

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styled-components

The SPA version heavily utilizes Styled Components, and although it's feasible to use the styled-vanilla-extract library and migrate the code with minimal changes, some parts would still need refactoring since CSS is pre-built during compilation. We've previously used the useStylesScoped$ function while building a corporate website, but it often felt more like a hack than a solid solution.

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BEM

Most of our headaches stemmed from styled-components. Despite the merits of this CSS-in-JS library, it doesn’t mesh as seamlessly with server components. Traditional CSS methodologies, such as BEM (Block, Element, Modifier), CSS modules, or even utility-first frameworks like Tailwind, would have alleviated many of our difficulties. This lesson is a key takeaway that we plan to carry forward into our future projects.

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