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Easily Convert CSS to React Inline Styles

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So you're working on a React app. It's up and running in your favorite browser but you notice an issue with some layout. You think, ok, this should be easy to fix. You open up the developer tools, hack on some CSS within the browser till you get it looking just the way you want it to. Maybe it's several CSS properties you added or tweaked so you copy each of them into the clipboard so you can transfer them back to your application.

Then you realize, these styles aren't coming from a CSS style sheet, they're in-line styles right in your React component.

Now you're like, FINE, I'll manually translate this to React-style-inline-CSS. This is no biggie if you do it once in a while. Except that time when you missed removing a dash or mis-cased a letter or maybe you forgot a JSON comma, or left a CSS semicolon. Never happened to you? Oh, you are so amazing if only I was as super cool as you. For myself and probably another 1 or 2 of you out there these problems do come up, but don't have to.

I hacked together a little tool that automates this translation. Allows you to paste your CSS into a textarea, it translates to React inline style JSON CSS and you can copy it out while avoiding translation bugs.

You can see the project here: CssToReact If you have a suggestion or want to pull-request it your self you can check it out here: Source to Project

Aside: This should really be a plugin to my text editor where we can right click and say "Paste as React Style" instead, but for now it's a single simple little web page that will automate the translation for you. (I haven't looked for the plugin - if it exists or ever is created let me know in the comments...)

Happy CSS Conversions!

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