# Example app with styled-components using babel This example features how you use a different styling solution than [styled-jsx](https://github.com/vercel/styled-jsx) that also supports universal styles. That means we can serve the required styles for the first render within the HTML and then load the rest in the client. In this case we are using [styled-components](https://github.com/styled-components/styled-components). For this purpose we are extending the `` and injecting the server side rendered styles into the ``, and also adding the `babel-plugin-styled-components` (which is required for server side rendering). Additionally we set up a global [theme](https://www.styled-components.com/docs/advanced#theming) for styled-components using NextJS custom [``](https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/custom-app) component. ## Preview Preview the example live on [StackBlitz](http://stackblitz.com/): [![Open in StackBlitz](https://developer.stackblitz.com/img/open_in_stackblitz.svg)](https://stackblitz.com/github/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples/with-styled-components-babel) ## Deploy your own Deploy the example using [Vercel](https://vercel.com?utm_source=github&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=next-example): [![Deploy with Vercel](https://vercel.com/button)](https://vercel.com/new/git/external?repository-url=https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples/with-styled-components-babel&project-name=with-styled-components-babel&repository-name=with-styled-components-babel) ## How to use Execute [`create-next-app`](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/packages/create-next-app) with [npm](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/init), [Yarn](https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/create/), or [pnpm](https://pnpm.io) to bootstrap the example: ```bash npx create-next-app --example with-styled-components-babel with-styled-components-babel-app ``` ```bash yarn create next-app --example with-styled-components-babel with-styled-components-babel-app ``` ```bash pnpm create next-app --example with-styled-components-babel with-styled-components-babel-app ``` Deploy it to the cloud with [Vercel](https://vercel.com/new?utm_source=github&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=next-example) ([Documentation](https://nextjs.org/docs/deployment)).