react-ssr-critical-styles

Important Relies on PR webpack-contrib/style-loader#159 in style-loader. Or use temp npm package of forked version - @humblespark/style-loader

style-loader can't work server side the same way it does client side, because there is no global document / object to write styles to. to collect critical styles on server, we need style-loader to expose the generated css, for us to bubble up to a higher order component for initial server side render. we need style-loader to expose locals as css-loader does.

Higher order components to use webpack style loader server side for React.

API

• addCriticalStyles - hoc addCriticalStyles(styles)(App)
• RemoveCriticalStyles - optional component for client
• GatherCriticalStyles - wrap server components to gather critical styles
• stringifyStyles - helper to join & minify styles to put in head

Usage

server.js (gathers styles from components to render inline in head)

import { GatherCriticalStyles, stringifyStyles } from 'react-ssr-critical-styles';

...

  let criticalStyles = [];
  const content = renderToString(
    <GatherCriticalStyles addCriticalStyles={(s) => criticalStyles.push(s)}>
      <App />
    </GatherCriticalStyles>
  );

  res.status(200).send(template(content, stringifyStyles(criticalStyles)));

  ...

client.js (optionally removes styles once style-loader kicks in on client. using this is optional.)

import { RemoveCriticalStyles } from 'react-ssr-critical-styles';

...

render((
  <RemoveCriticalStyles styleId="critical-styles">
    <App />
  </RemoveCriticalStyles>
), document.getElementById('root'));

...

AppComponent.js (addCriticalStyles hoc uses context to bubble up through component tree.)

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import styles, { locals } from 'app.css';
import { addCriticalStyles } from 'react-ssr-critical-styles';

class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return <div className={locals.App} />
  }
}

export default addCriticalStyles(styles)(App);