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title: "Package Summaries"
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Below is a list of most of Emotion's packages and a summary of what it's for and how it relates to other Emotion packages.

## @emotion/react

Contains the react-specific version of Emotion. use this if you’re using React. Has different functionality and APIs from @emotion/css and doesn’t work the same way under the hood.
Depends on @emotion/cache

## @emotion/styled

Contains the styled API, uses @emotion/react under the hood and wraps it with a different API.
Depends on @emotion/react

## @emotion/css

Contains a framework agnostic version of Emotion. Has different functionality and APIs from @emotion/react and doesn’t work the same way under the hood.
Depends on @emotion/cache which can be customized by creating a custom instance at @emotion/css/create-instance

## @emotion/cache

A cache used by both of the main Emotion APIs. Can be used to provide a custom cache in @emotion/react with its CacheProvider. To customize the equivalent options for @emotion/css, @emotion/css/create-instance can create another instance of @emotion/css and it accepts
Depended upon by @emotion/react and @emotion/css

## @emotion/babel-plugin

A Babel plugin to optimise for @emotion/css, @emotion/react and @emotion/styled

## @emotion/eslint-plugin

ESLint rules for @emotion/css, @emotion/react and @emotion/styled

## @emotion/server

Contains APIs for server rendering with @emotion/css. Can also work with @emotion/react if emotion’s cache is passed to @emotion/react’s CacheProvider
Has an optional peer dependency on @emotion/css for when @emotion/server is used directly but it’s an optional so that @emotion/server/create-instance can be used with any cache created by @emotion/cache

## @emotion/jest

Contains a Jest snapshot serializer and matchers for use with all Emotion packages
Depends on the behaviour of @emotion/cache so it therefore works with @emotion/react and @emotion/css

## @emotion/native

Contains the styled API for React Native along with a css function similar to the ones from @emotion/css and @emotion/react except that it returns a React Native style object

## @emotion/primitives

Contains the styled API for React Primitives along with a css function similar to the ones from @emotion/css and @emotion/react except that it returns a React Native style object.

## @emotion/babel-preset-css-prop

A Babel preset to allow usage of the css prop everywhere without importing it
Uses @emotion/react and @emotion/babel-plugin
