v3.7.1

• Retrocompatibility with React 16. Ref

v3.3.1

• I.E is almost supported out of the box (See note at the end of this sections)

Breaking changes in v3

• New API for nested selectors. We no longer use createRef().
• label have been renamed name for helping the migration from the old mui API.

Why this instead of the hook API of Material UI v4?

First of all because makeStyle is deprecated in @material-ui v5 but also because it has some major flaws. Let's consider this example:

import { makeStyles, createStyles } from "@material-ui/core/styles";

type Props = {
    color: "red" | "blue";
};

const useStyles = makeStyles(theme =>
    createStyles<"root" | "label", { color: "red" | "blue" }>({
        "root": {
            "backgroundColor": theme.palette.primary.main,
        },
        "label": ({ color }) => ({
            color,
        }),
    }),
);

function MyComponent(props: Props) {
    const classes = useStyles(props);

    return (
        <div className={classes.root}>
            <span className={classes.label}>Hello World</span>
        </div>
    );
}

Two pain points:

• Because TypeScript doesn't support partial argument inference, we have to explicitly enumerate the classes name as an union type "root" | "label".
• We shouldn't have to import createStyles to get correct typings.

Let's now compare with tss-react

import { makeStyles } from "./makeStyles";

type Props = {
    color: "red" | "blue";
};

const { useStyles } = makeStyles<{ color: "red" | "blue" }>()(
    (theme, { color }) => ({
        "root": {
            "backgroundColor": theme.palette.primary.main,
        },
        "label": { color },
    }),
);

function MyComponent(props: Props) {
    const { classes } = useStyles(props);

    return (
        <div className={classes.root}>
            <span className={classes.label}>Hello World</span>
        </div>
    );
}

Benefits:

• Less verbose, same type safety.
• You don't need to remember how things are supposed to be named, just let intellisense guide you.

Besides, the hook api of material-ui, have other problems:

• One major bug: see issue
• JSS has poor performances compared to emotion source

Why this instead of Styled component ?

See this issue

Compile error TS1023

If you get this error:

node_modules/tss-react/index.d.ts:18:10 - error TS1023: An index signature parameter type must be either 'string' or 'number'.

18         [mediaQuery: `@media${string}`]: { [RuleName_1 in keyof ClassNameByRuleName]?: import("./types").CSSObject | undefined; };
            ~~~~~~~~~~

it means that you need to update TypeScript to a version >= 4.4.
If you can't use import { } from "tss-react/compat"; instead of import { } from "tss-react".
Only withStyles() will have slightly inferior type inference.