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Tamagui

by tamagui

Universal React Styling with Native Performance

Cross-platform styling system delivering identical design across React Native and web with compiler-level optimizations.

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About This Project

Tamagui is a comprehensive styling solution that eliminates the traditional trade-off between developer experience and runtime performance. It provides a unified API that works seamlessly across React Native, React Native Web, and standard React applications, ensuring your components look and behave identically regardless of platform.

At its core, Tamagui features an optimizing compiler that extracts styles at build time, converting runtime style calculations into static CSS. This approach dramatically reduces JavaScript bundle sizes and eliminates style computation overhead during runtime, resulting in significantly faster app initialization and smoother interactions.

The framework includes an optional UI component library built with accessibility and customization in mind. Components are designed to be theme-aware, responsive, and performant out of the box. The atomic CSS approach combined with the compiler means you get the flexibility of CSS-in-JS without the performance penalties typically associated with runtime styling solutions.

Whether you're building a mobile-first application that needs web support or a web app that might expand to native platforms, Tamagui provides the styling infrastructure to maintain consistency while maximizing performance. Its integration with modern build tools like Vite and Webpack makes adoption straightforward for existing projects.

Key Features

  • 100% style parity between React Native and web platforms
  • Optimizing compiler that extracts styles at build time for zero-runtime cost
  • Comprehensive UI component library with built-in accessibility
  • Atomic CSS architecture with TypeScript support
  • Theme system with responsive design utilities and variants

How You Can Use It

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Building cross-platform mobile and web applications with unified styling

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Optimizing React Native apps suffering from style calculation performance bottlenecks

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Creating design systems that work consistently across native and web platforms

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Developing high-performance user interfaces with minimal runtime overhead

Who Is This For?

React and React Native developers building cross-platform applications who need consistent styling with optimal performance