Runtime mode

[s-panferov]

Describe the enhancement

I would like Linaria to have a "runtime" mode with client-side style compilation like styled-components has. This enables working with esbuild and swc bundlers for development.

Motivation

esbuild and swc are much faster and zero-dependency, so I don't need to have multi-gigabyte node_modules with webpack and babel. I still want to use them for release builds (to precompile and split css files), but I have a separate CI pipeline for that.

Possible implementations

Linaria could have a top-level export like linaria/runtime which I can use as alias to linaria for development builds

[kizu]

Just want to mention another use-case for the runtime mode — live playgrounds, for example, using in the styleguides for component examples, with editable styles pane for them.

Maybe it could be some kind of an escape hatch, hidden from the regular usage, as I don't think this is something that should be used for the actual production code, so would be better to discourage such usage, but would be awesome to make it available for some of the more specific runtime use-cases.

[snettah]

No news about that ? I want create an ui lib with linaria to use in Next 13 but I can't due to this error

'Using the "styled" tag in runtime is not supported. Make sure you have set up the Babel plugin correctly. See https://github.com/callstack/linaria#setup'