Wednesday, 19 August, 2020 UTC
Summary
In this lesson we’ll create the Flex layout primitive component, that will allow us (together with other layout primitives) to create almost any complex layout without writing custom CSS. We’ll use [Styled System](https://styled-system.com/) to create this component. Flex is a shortcut to create Flexbox layouts: it’s based on the [Box](https://egghead.io/lessons/react-creating-the-box-layout-primitive-component-using-styled-system) component but defines `display: flex`. We can use it like this: ```jsx Foo Bar ``` This will create two `
`s aligned at the left and right sides of the Flexbox container with a minimum gap of 8 pixels (third step in our spacing scale). **We’ll use following libraries:** * [styled-components](https://styled-components.com/) * [Styled System](https://styled-system.com/) You can either use this lesson’s [Git repository](https://github.com/sapegin/cddcourse) or install them manually in your project: ``` npm install styled-components styled-system ``` **Useful links and documentation:** * [Styled System docs](https://styled-system.com/getting-started/) * [Build a Box](https://styled-system.com/guides/build-a-box) * [A Complete Guide to Flexbox](https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/)