Evolution and Challenges of Using Stylix in React at Facebook

The chapter delves into the development and integration of Stylix at Facebook during their transition to React, discussing its flexibility, challenges faced with other similar tools like Grifl, and enhancing build times using a Babel pipeline and Perfile compilation. It explores the impact of implementing caching mechanisms on Stylix for development servers, optimizing bundlers like Webpack, and overcoming challenges while integrating with Next.js. Furthermore, the chapter compares the differences between Flow and TypeScript in terms of type systems, design decisions, and performance benefits, highlighting missing features in TypeScript and the emphasis on explicit typing in the new JavaScript registry, JSR.