Material UI - Create React App example with styled-components in TypeScript

The main difference between this and the non-TypeScript example is that you need to add the following path config to your tsconfig.json:

"paths": {
  "@mui/styled-engine": ["./node_modules/@mui/styled-engine-sc"]
}

and install @types/styled-components:

npm install --save-dev @types/styled-components

Alternatively, to skip this configuration, you can set skipLibCheck: true in your tsconfig.

How to use

Download the example or clone the repo:

curl https://codeload.github.com/mui/material-ui/tar.gz/master | tar -xz --strip=2 material-ui-master/examples/material-ui-cra-styled-components-ts
cd material-ui-cra-styled-components-ts

Install it and run:

npm install
npm start

CodeSandbox

Note that CodeSandbox is not supporting react-app-rewired, yet you can still see the code.

The following link leverages this demo: https://mui.com/guides/interoperability/#change-the-default-styled-engine with Parcel's alias feature within the package.json.

The idea behind the example

This example demonstrates how to set up Material UI with Create React App with styled-components as a style engine for your application using TypeScript.

Versions compatibility

Note, the version 5 of @mui/styled-engine-sc is compatible with version 5 of styled-components, while the version 6 of @mui/styled-engine-sc (currently in alpha), is compatible with v6 of styled-components. When incorporating these dependencies into your project, consider this compatibility requirement. In this example application, both libraries are using version 6.

What's next?