Pinceau

Make your <script> lighter and your <style> smarter.

🕹️ Try it online • 📖 Documentation

• 🦾 Typed Styling API inspired from the tools you already love

  • const Component = $styled.a<Props>({ ...componentStyle })
    const className = styled({ ...scopedCss })
    css({ ...globalCss })

• 🎨 Multi-layers Design Tokens compatible theme configuration

• ⚡ Plug & play support for any Vite-based framework

  Vue, React, Svelte, Nuxt, Astro

• 🪄 Comes with everything you need to build a robust design system

  • Smart output engine that uses static CSS or CSSOM when you need it
  • Style colocation
  • Style composition
  • Responsive variants API
  • Theming and local tokens
  • Runtime theme swapping

• 🧱 Fully modulable, let you disable every feature you do not need but needs no configuration to start

• 🌐 SSR-ready with optimized hydration and no JS/CSS style duplication

• ✅ 300+ tests covering every core packages and integrations

• 🍦 VSCode extension for DX Sugar

Planned support for: Qwik, SolidJS, Preact, Lit, yours ?

Pinceau v1 is currently in ⚠️ beta, feel free to report any feedback you may have in issues.

⚙️ Install

Vue

pnpm install @pinceau/vue

// vite.config.ts
import Pinceau from '@pinceau/vue/plugin'

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    Pinceau(),
    ...yourPlugins
  ],
})

Example: examples/vite-vue/vite.config.ts

Svelte

pnpm install @pinceau/svelte

// vite.config.ts
import Pinceau from '@pinceau/svelte/plugin'

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    Pinceau(),
    ...yourPlugins
  ],
})

Example: examples/vite-svelte/vite.config.ts

React

pnpm install @pinceau/react

// vite.config.ts
import Pinceau from '@pinceau/react/plugin'

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    Pinceau(),
    ...yourPlugins
  ],
})

Example: examples/vite-react/vite.config.ts

Use our theme or create yours

Use our default theme, 🎨 Pigments:

// vite.config.ts
export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    Pinceau({
      theme: {
        layers: ['@pinceau/pigments']
      }
    })
  ]
})

Or build your in theme.config.ts:

// theme.config.ts
import { defineTheme } from '@pinceau/theme'

export default defineTheme({
  // Media queries
  media: {
    mobile: '(min-width: 320px)',
    tablet: '(min-width: 768px)',
    desktop: '(min-width: 1280px)'
  },


  // Some Design tokens
  color: {
    red: {
      1: '#FCDFDA',
      2: '#F48E7C',
      3: '#ED4D31',
      4: '#A0240E',
      5: '#390D05',
    },
    green: {
      1: '#CDF4E5',
      2: '#9AE9CB',
      3: '#36D397',
      4: '#1B7D58',
      5: '#072117',
    }
  },
  space: {
    1: '0.25rem',
    2: '0.5rem',
    3: '0.75rem',
    4: '1rem'
  }

  // Utils properties
  utils: {
    px: (value: PropertyValue<'padding'>) => ({ paddingLeft: value, paddingRight: value }),
    py: (value: PropertyValue<'padding'>) => ({ paddingTop: value, paddingBottom: value })
  }
})

Example: examples/theme/theme.config.ts

💖 Credits

This package takes a lot of inspiration from these amazing projects:

Stitches • vanilla-extract • unocss • style-dictionary

License

MIT License © 2022-PRESENT Yaël GUILLOUX

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“All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.” • Bob Ross