That example doesn't use shorthands to be more clear, and shows the styled utility function which is a more advanced case of wanting to define a group of styles

That example doesn't use shorthands to be more clear, and shows the styled utility function which is a more advanced case of wanting to define a group of styles nicely. Which is incidentally fixing a couple of the problems in TFA. If you just want the simple Tailwind experience you can use shorthands only in those, or even closer just import <Stack /> or <Text /> directly and use shorthands with typed tokens. It's there in a few of the first examples. The upside there is they are just regular props that are typed and have object de-structure and re-structure. import { Stack } from 'tamagui' <Stack p="$2" mx="$1" bc="red" />